{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-working-time-inland-waterways-regulations-2003/regulation-7B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-working-time-inland-waterways-regulations-2003/regulation-7B.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/7B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7B",
  "heading": "Transfer of night workers to day work",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a registered medical practitioner has advised an employer that a worker is suffering from health problems which the practitioner considers to be connected with the fact that the worker performs night work, and\n(b) it is possible for the employer to transfer the worker to work—\n(i) to which the worker is suited, and\n(ii) which is to be undertaken during periods such that the worker will cease to be a night worker,\nthe employer shall transfer the worker accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 7-7D substituted for reg. 7 (5.1.2018) by The Merchant Shipping (Working Time Inland Waterways) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1149), regs. 1(2), 9"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/3049/regulation/7B",
    "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."
}