{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-seamens-documents-regulations-1987/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-seamens-documents-regulations-1987/regulation-16.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/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Application for discharge books",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 15 shall not apply to a person if he holds a document—\n(a) containing substantially the same information as a discharge book; and\n(b) which has been issued to him by or under the authority of the government of a country specified in Schedule 4; and\n(c) of which he has not ceased to be regarded as the holder by that government.\n(2) Regulation 15 shall not apply to a person in the employment of the Crown who is not ordinarily employed as a master or seaman.\n(3) For the purposes of regulation 15 no regard shall be had to employment in a fishing vessel or in a ship exempted from the requirements of section 1 of the Act (which relates to crew agreements) by regulations made under subsection (5)(a) of that section.",
  "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/16",
    "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."
}