{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-provisions-and-water-regulations-1989/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-provisions-and-water-regulations-1989/regulation-6.json",
  "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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Offences and Penalties",
  "text": "(1) Contravention of regulation 4 by an employer shall be an offence punishable only on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding level four on the standard scale.\n(2) Contravention of regulation 4 or 5 by a master shall be an offence punishable only on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding level four on the standard scale.\n(3) It shall be a defence for a person charged in respect of a contravention of any of these Regulations, including a person charged by virtue of regulation 7, to show that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.",
  "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/6",
    "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."
}