{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-seamens-documents-regulations-1987/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-seamens-documents-regulations-1987/regulation-22.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/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Production of discharge books",
  "text": "(1) The holder of a discharge book shall produce it on demand at any time—\n(a) to a superintendent, a proper officer, the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen or an official of the Merchant Navy Establishment Administration;\n(b) to his employer and to the master of the ship in which the holder is employed; and\n(c) to any other person authorised by regulation 20 to make an entry in it, for the purpose of making that entry.\n(2) The holder of a discharge book who fails to produce it when required to do so in accordance with this regulation shall be guilty of an offence.\n(3) A person to whom a discharge book is produced shall return it to the holder as soon as practical after the entry has been made or any inspection of it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev.in pt.",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3281",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Documents) (Amendment) Regulations 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/408/regulation/22",
    "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."
}