{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pleasure-craft-arrival-and-report-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pleasure-craft-arrival-and-report-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1406",
  "legislation_title": "The Pleasure Craft (Arrival and Report) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pleasure-craft-arrival-and-report-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“arrival” means the anchoring, berthing or mooring of a vessel within the limits of a port and “arrive” and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;\n“CEMA 1979” means the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979;\n“notification of arrival” means notification of arrival as referred to in regulation 6(2);\n“pleasure craft” means a vessel which, at the time of its arrival in the United Kingdom, is being used for private recreational purposes;\n“the Directions” means directions made by the Commissioners under section 35(1) of CEMA 1979;\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 purposes of these Regulations in the Directions.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (6.8.2026) by The Pleasure Craft (Arrival and Report) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/819), regs. 1, 3(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (6.8.2026) by The Pleasure Craft (Arrival and Report) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/819), regs. 1, 3(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (6.8.2026) by The Pleasure Craft (Arrival and Report) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/819), regs. 1, 3(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 28.6.1996, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1406/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:43:00.195582+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."
}