{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pleasure-craft-arrival-and-report-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pleasure-craft-arrival-and-report-regulations-1996/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "The flying of the signal flag ‘Q’",
  "text": "The person responsible shall cause a yellow flag (the signal flag for ‘Q’ in the International Code of Signals) to be flown on a vessel which it is intended shall arrive as a pleasure craft at all times between the crossing of the limits of a port in the United Kingdom and being notified by an officer that the flag may be lowered.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4 substituted (6.8.2026) by The Pleasure Craft (Arrival and Report) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/819), regs. 1, 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 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/4",
    "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."
}