{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-working-time-inland-waterways-regulations-2003/regulation-8",
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  "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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Pattern of work",
  "text": "Where the pattern according to which an employer organises work is such as to put the health and safety of a worker employed by him at risk, in particular because the work is monotonous or at a predetermined work-rate, the employer shall ensure that the worker is given adequate rest breaks.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8 inserted (5.1.2018) by The Merchant Shipping (Working Time Inland Waterways) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1149), regs. 1(2), 10"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/3049/regulation/8",
    "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."
}