{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-watercraft-order-2023/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-watercraft-order-2023/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/35",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Watercraft) Order 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-watercraft-order-2023",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Meaning of “watercraft”",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), “watercraft” means any type of craft which—\n(a) is capable of moving under its own mechanical power,\n(b) is used, navigated or situated wholly or partly in or on water, and\n(c) is capable of being used to carry one or more persons.\n(2) “Watercraft” does not include a ship or fishing vessel within the meanings given in section 313(1) of the 1995 Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 31.3.2023, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/35/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:50:47.251594+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."
}