{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-standards-of-training-certification-and-watchkeeping-regulations-2022/regulation-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-standards-of-training-certification-and-watchkeeping-regulations-2022/regulation-54.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/1342",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-standards-of-training-certification-and-watchkeeping-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/54",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), this Part applies to—\n(a) seagoing ships registered in the United Kingdom, wherever they may be; and\n(b) other seagoing ships while in United Kingdom waters.\n(2) This Part does not apply to—\n(a) ships of war and naval auxiliary ships;\n(b) ships owned or operated by a State and engaged only on governmental non-commercial service;\n(c) fishing vessels;\n(d) pleasure vessels; or\n(e) vessels—\n(i) which are small vessels as defined in regulation 3(1) of the Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 2025; and\n(ii) to which those Regulations apply.\n(3) In this Part, “ship” includes hovercraft.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 54(2)(e) substituted (12.12.2025) by The Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1195), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 21 (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 54 in force at 10.1.2023, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1342/regulation/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:51:56.806602+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."
}