{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ship-to-ship-transfers-regulations-2020/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ship-to-ship-transfers-regulations-2020/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/94",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Ship-to-Ship Transfers) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ship-to-ship-transfers-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Prohibited bunkering operations",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and regulation 11 (exemptions), a bunkering operation must not be carried out in United Kingdom waters unless the ships carrying out the operation are within harbour authority waters.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a bunkering operation—\n(a) between a ship and an offshore installation;\n(b) between a ship and its rescue boat or tender;\n(c) to or from a warship or naval auxiliary ship;\n(d) to or from any other ship owned or operated by a State and used solely, for the time being, on government non-commercial service; or\n(e) carried out by or on behalf of a general lighthouse authority.\n(3) In this regulation, “rescue boat” means a ship designed or used to rescue persons in distress and to marshal life rafts.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/94/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:34:11.241635+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."
}