{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radio-installations-regulations-1998/regulation-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radio-installations-regulations-1998/regulation-50.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2070",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Radio Installations) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radio-installations-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/50",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Penalties",
  "text": "(1) If a ... person nominated under regulation 18(7) of these Regulations contravenes any provision of these Regulations imposing a duty on him, he shall be guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale; and if any person, being the owner or master of the ship, permits such a contravention, he shall be guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or a fine, or both.\n(2) If these Regulations are contravened in any other respect in relation to any ship, the owner and master of the ship shall each be guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or a fine, or both.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 50(1) omitted (24.12.2021) by virtue of The Merchant Shipping (Radiocommunications) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1316), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 15 (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 50 in force at 28.9.1998, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2070/regulation/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:20:32.773936+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."
}