{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-watercraft-order-2023/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-watercraft-order-2023/schedule-2/paragraph-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": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application of the Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 2025",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 2025 apply in relation to watercraft as they apply in relation to ships.\n(2) Regulation 3 (general interpretation), for the purposes of interpreting an applied shipping provision mentioned in this paragraph.\n(3) Regulation 5 (exemptions) as if in paragraph (2) the reference to a vessel was a reference to watercraft.\n(4) Regulation 6 (equivalents) as if in paragraph (3) the reference to a small vessel was a reference to a watercraft.\n(5) Regulation 7 (approvals) as if the reference to a United Kingdom ship was a reference to a watercraft in United Kingdom waters.\n(6) Regulation 20 (requirements for small vessels) as if in paragraph (1) the reference to a small vessel was a reference to a watercraft.\n(7) Regulation 23 (offences), as if in paragraph (1)—\n(a) the reference to a vessel was a reference to a watercraft; and\n(b) the reference to the owner and master was a reference to the owner and operator of the watercraft.\n(8) Regulation 24 (detention of vessels), as if—\n(a) a reference to a vessel was a reference to a watercraft; and\n(b) a reference to the master was a reference to the owner or operator of the watercraft.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3 inserted (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. 23 (with reg. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/35/schedule/2/paragraph/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."
}