{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-watercraft-amendment-order-2026/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/348",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Watercraft) (Amendment) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-watercraft-amendment-order-2026",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Insertion of article 10A",
  "text": "After article 10, insert—\n“Part 3A\nAccident investigation: watercraft\nAccident investigation\n10A The following provisions of the 1995 Act apply in relation to watercraft as they apply in relation to ships—\n(a) section 267 (investigation of marine accidents) as if, in subsection (2)(a)(i), the reference to a United Kingdom ship includes a reference to a watercraft eligible for registration in the United Kingdom;\n(b) section 259 so far as it applies for the purposes of section 267(8).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/348/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:03:29.005658+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."
}