{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-severn-bridge-restriction-of-navigation-regulations-1993/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-severn-bridge-restriction-of-navigation-regulations-1993/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/190",
  "legislation_title": "The New Severn Bridge (Restriction of Navigation) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-severn-bridge-restriction-of-navigation-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prohibition of navigation",
  "text": "(1) No person shall navigate or cause or permit to be navigated any vessel within any part of the river, other than the Shoots, situated within 250 metres on either side of the centre line of the new bridge, except—\n(a) a vessel whilst it is in use for the purposes of or in connection with the construction or maintenance of the new bridge;\n(b) a vessel having a deadweight of less than 100 tonnes;\n(c) a survey or rescue vessel authorised by the Gloucester Harbour Trustees; or\n(d) a vessel less than 24 metres long.\n(2) No person shall navigate or cause or permit to be navigated any vessel in the Shoots except—\n(a) a vessel falling within any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) of paragraph (1) above;\n(b) a vessel less than 47.5 metres long and used for fishing or for sport or recreation;\n(c) a vessel which is recorded in Lloyd’s Register of Ships and is either—\n(i) not given an Ice Class special features notation and is recorded as having a deadweight not exceeding 8000 tonnes; or\n(ii) is given one of the Ice Class special features notations referred to in column (1) of the table below and is recorded as having a deadweight not exceeding that specified opposite that notation in column (2) of the table:—\nTable\n(1) Lloyd's\n(2) Deadweight\nIce Class\nin tonnes\n1AS\n6500\n1A\n6500\n1B\n7000\n1C\n7500\n1D\n7500\n; and\n(d) a vessel which is recorded in a register kept by an approved classification society and which the Secretary of State has accepted in writing as having, in all material respects, characteristics equivalent to those of a vessel falling within sub-paragraph (c) of this paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/190/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:06:00.377638+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."
}