{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-ships-regulations-1979/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-ships-regulations-1979/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1435",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Health (Ships) Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-ships-regulations-1979",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where the authorised officer so directs, or where the master is required to make a report in accordance with regulation 13(1)(a), (b) or (c), no person, other than the pilot, a customs officer or an immigration officer, shall, without the permission of the authorised officer, board or leave a ship until free pratique has been granted, and the master shall take all reasonable steps to secure compliance with this provision.\n(2) Before granting permission to a person to leave the ship, the authorised officer may require him to state his name and his intended destination and address, and to give any other information which the authorised officer may think necessary for transmission to the medical officer for the area in which the intended destination of the person is situated.\n(3) If such a person cannot state his intended destination and address or arrives, within a period, not exceeding fourteen days after landing, to be specified to him by the authorised officer, at an address other than that which he has so stated, he shall immediately after his arrival at that address send particulars thereof to the authorised officer of the port where he left the ship.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1435/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:10:42.129776+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."
}