{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pleasure-craft-arrival-and-report-regulations-1990/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pleasure-craft-arrival-and-report-regulations-1990/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1169",
  "legislation_title": "The Pleasure Craft (Arrival and Report) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pleasure-craft-arrival-and-report-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act of 1979” means the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979;\n“arrival” means the anchoring, berthing or mooring of a pleasure craft within the limits of a port and “arrive” and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;\n“duty” means any duty, tax or levy charged on goods imported into the United Kingdom;\n“the person responsible” means the person on board a vessel under whose command or subject to whose personal direction it has arrived or is intended to arrive as a pleasure craft;\n“the prescribed form” means the form prescribed by the Commissioners for the purpose of these Regulations in directions made under section 35(1) of the Act of 1979;\n“pleasure craft” means—\n(a) a vessel which, at the time of its arrival from abroad at a port in the United Kingdom, is being used for private recreational purposes, and of which the total complement, including passengers and crew, does not exceed 12 persons; or\n(b) any vessel which an officer allows, after application is made to him in person or in writing, to be treated as a pleasure craft for the purposes of these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/3095",
      "affecting_title": "The Customs and Excise (Single Market etc.) Regulations 1992"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1169/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:19:43.967153+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."
}