{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radio-installations-regulations-1992/schedule-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radio-installations-regulations-1992/schedule-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Radio Installations) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radio-installations-regulations-1992",
  "path": "schedule/1",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "SATELLITE EPIRBS",
  "text": "Every satellite EPIRB provided pursuant to these Regulations shall be—\n(1) capable of transmitting a distress alert either through the polar orbiting satellite service operating in the 406 MHz band which may be the float-free satellite EPIRB carried in accordance with the Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 or, alternatively, in sea areas A1, A2 and A3 only, through the INMARSAT geostationary satellite service operating in the 1.6 GHz band;\n(2) installed in an easily accessible position;\n(3) ready to be manually released and capable of being carried by one person into a survival craft;\n(4) capable of floating free if the ship sinks and of being automatically activated when afloat; and\n(5) capable of being activated manually.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1300."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3/schedule/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:31:27.223246+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."
}