{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-port-state-control-regulations-1995/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-port-state-control-regulations-1995/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3128",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-port-state-control-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) If there is any contravention of a direction made pursuant to regulation 9(2), in respect of a ship, the owner and master of the ship shall each be guilty of an offence, and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or on conviction on indictment to imprisonment not exceeding two years, or a fine or both.\n(2) Where a ship:\n(a) fails to proceed to the yard specified in regulation 13(1); or\n(b) enters a port in contravention of regulation 13(5);\nthe owner and master shall each be guilty of an offence, and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or on conviction on indictment to imprisonment not exceeding two years, or a fine, or both.\n(3) If a person obstructs an inspector or any person assisting the inspector he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\n(4) Any pilot who contravenes regulation 15(1) or any port authority which contravenes regulation 15(1) or 15(3) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(5) It shall be a defence for a person charged under this regulation to prove that the person charged took all reasonable steps to avoid committing the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1433",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) (Amendment) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for reg. 18(a)(b)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1636",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) (Amendment) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3128/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:56:52.884381+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}