{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-safe-movement-on-board-ship-regulations-1988/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-safe-movement-on-board-ship-regulations-1988/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1641",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Safe Movement on Board Ship) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-safe-movement-on-board-ship-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Penalties",
  "text": "(1) Contravention of regulation 4, 5, 6, 7, 8(1), 9 or 10 by an employer shall be an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding £2000 or on conviction on indictment by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or a fine, or both.\n(2) Contravention of regulation 4, 5, 6, 7, 8(1), 9 or 10 by a master shall be an offence punishable only on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding £1000.\n(3) Contravention of regulation 11 by an owner shall be an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding £2000 or on conviction on indictment by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or a fine, or both.\n(4) It shall be a defence for a person charged in respect of a contravention of regulations 4(1), so far as it relates to access by means of a transit area referred to in regulation 5, or 5 to show that the requirements of the relevant regulation were complied with so far as was reasonably practicable.\n(5) 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 13, 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/1988/1641/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:57:46.516273+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."
}