{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-tonnage-amendment-regulations-1998/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-tonnage-amendment-regulations-1998/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1915",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Tonnage Amendment) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-tonnage-amendment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In regulation 1(2)—\n(a) the following definitions shall be inserted in the appropriate alphabetical positions—\n“(a) (i) “length” in regulations 29, 42 and 56 (except in regulation 56(4)(b)) has the same meaning as in the Tonnage Regulations”;\n“(ii) “Tonnage Regulations” means the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) Regulations 1997”;\n(b) for the defintions of “overall length” there shall be substituted—\n““overall length” has the same meaning as “length overall” in the Tonnage Regulations.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1509, amended by S.I. 1998/1916."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1915/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:51.336418+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."
}