{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-seamens-documents-regulations-1987/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-seamens-documents-regulations-1987/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/408",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Documents) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-seamens-documents-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Application for discharge books",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, a person who satisfies the conditions specified in paragraph (2) of this regulation shall apply for a discharge book within 7 days of satisfying those conditions.\n(2) The conditions referred to in paragraph (1) are that the person—\n(a) is not exempted from the requirements of section 1 of the Act (which relates to crew agreements) by regulations made under subsection (5)(b) of that section; and\n(b) either—\n(i) is employed as a seaman in a ship registered in the United Kingdom otherwise than in an employment specified in regulation 16(3) below; or\n(ii) being a citizen of the United Kingdom and colonies, has been discharged abroad after being so employed and has arrived in the United Kingdom within 6 months of being discharged, unless, at the time he arrived in the United Kingdom, he did not intend to take such employment; and\n(c) is not the holder of a discharge book issued in accordance with these Regulations; and\n(d) has not been required by the Secretary of State, under regulation 27(1) of these Regulations to surrender a discharge book issued in accordance with these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/408/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:30:07.364027+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."
}