{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-repatriation-regulations-1979/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-repatriation-regulations-1979/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/97",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Repatriation) Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-repatriation-regulations-1979",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where it appears to a superintendent or proper officer for any place where a seaman is, that the seaman's employer has failed to make or to continue to make any or sufficient provision with respect to any matter for which he is required to make provision for that seaman under regulation 3, the superintendent or proper officer shall make that provision.\n(2) Where a citizen of the United Kingdom and colonies is found in distress in any country outside the United Kingdom within three months after ceasing to be employed in ships registered in, or belonging to the government of, such a country, the proper officer for the place where that person is found shall, as soon as practicable after he is found, make—\n(a) the like provision to ensure that he is returned to a place ascertained under regulation 6 as the employer of a seaman to whom these Regulations apply is required to make under regulation 3; and\n(b) the like provision for his relief and maintenance until his return as the employer of such a seaman is required to make under regulation 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/97/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:22:38.632385+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."
}