{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-seamens-documents-regulations-1987/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-seamens-documents-regulations-1987/regulation-24.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/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Effect of loss, destruction, defacement or filling up of discharge books.",
  "text": "When—\n(a) his discharge book is lost, destroyed or defaced, or\n(b) the space provided in it for entries of any particulars except those referred to in Schedule 3 is filled up,\na person shall cease to be regarded as the holder of a discharge book and shall, within 7 days of satisfying the conditions specified in regulation 15(2), apply for a new discharge book.",
  "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/24",
    "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."
}