{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-provisions-and-water-regulations-1989/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/102",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Provisions and Water) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-provisions-and-water-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Duties of Employers and Master",
  "text": "It shall be the duty of the master to ensure that he, or a person authorised by him, together with a member of the crew employed in catering on the ship, inspects not less than once a week provisions and water for the purpose of checking whether the provisions and water still comply with sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) of regulation 4 above. The results of such inspections shall be recorded in the Official Log Book of the ship.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/102/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:50:54.232299+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."
}