{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-working-time-inland-waterways-regulations-2003/regulation-6C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-working-time-inland-waterways-regulations-2003/regulation-6C.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/3049",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Working Time: Inland Waterways) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-working-time-inland-waterways-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/6C",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6C",
  "heading": "Maximum average weekly working time",
  "text": "(1) A worker’s working time shall not exceed an average of 48 hours for any seven day period.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation, a worker’s average working time for each seven days during the reference period shall be determined according to the following formula—\n(A+B)¯Cwhere—\nA is the aggregate number of hours comprised in the worker’s working time during the course of the reference period;\nB is the aggregate number of hours comprised in the worker’s working time during the course of the period beginning immediately after the end of the reference period and ending when the number of days in that subsequent period on which the worker has worked equals the number of excluded days during the reference period; and\nC is the number of weeks in the reference period.\n(3) In paragraph (2), “excluded days” means—\n(a) days comprised in any period of annual leave taken by the worker in exercise of the worker’s entitlement under regulation 11 or 11A;\n(b) in so far as it is not comprised in any period of annual leave in accordance with sub-paragraph (a), any day which is a bank holiday in any part of the United Kingdom under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971;\n(c) days comprised in any period of sick leave taken by the worker; and\n(d) any period of maternity, paternity, adoption or parental leave taken by the worker.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 6-6D substituted for reg. 6 (5.1.2018) by The Merchant Shipping (Working Time Inland Waterways) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1149), regs. 1(2), 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/3049/regulation/6C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:39:44.061995+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."
}