{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-watercraft-order-2023/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-watercraft-order-2023/schedule-2/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/35",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Watercraft) Order 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-watercraft-order-2023",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Application of the Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1996",
  "text": "The Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1996 apply in relation to watercraft as they apply in relation to ships, as if—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(a) of regulation 2 (application)—\n(i) the reference to United Kingdom ships includes a reference to watercraft registered in the United Kingdom under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, and\n(ii) the reference to other ships includes a reference to other watercraft;\n(b) the references in regulation 5 (exemptions) to any ship or description of ships includes a reference to any watercraft or description of watercraft;\n(c) any reference to a master includes a reference to any person for the time being using a watercraft.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1 in force at 31.3.2023, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/75, as amended by S.I. 2004/302 and 2015/664"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/35/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}