{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ships-doctors-regulations-1995/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1803",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Ships' Doctors) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ships-doctors-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“owner” in relation to a ship means the registered owner of the ship unless that ship has been chartered by demise or is managed, either wholly or in part, by a person other than the registered owner under the terms of a management agreement; in that case “owner” includes the demise charterer or person managing the ship, as the case may be;\n“qualified doctor” means a fully registered person within the meaning of section 55 of the Medical Act 1983.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 54."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/3135",
      "affecting_title": "The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1803/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:05:44.809073+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."
}