{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recreational-craft-regulations-2017/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recreational-craft-regulations-2017/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/737",
  "legislation_title": "The Recreational Craft Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recreational-craft-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exclusions",
  "text": "(1) The design and construction requirements set out in Part A of Schedule 1 do not apply to the following watercraft—\n(a) watercraft intended solely for racing, including rowing racing boats and training boats, labelled as such by the manufacturer;\n(b) canoes and kayaks designed to be propelled solely by human power, gondolas and pedalos;\n(c) surfboards designed to be propelled by wind and to be operated by a person or persons standing;\n(d) other surfboards;\n(e) original historical watercraft and individual replicas thereof designed before 1950 built predominantly with the original materials and labelled as such by the manufacturer;\n(f) experimental watercraft, unless they are placed on the market;\n(g) watercraft built for own use, provided that such watercraft are not subsequently placed on the EU market for a period of five years beginning with the date on which the watercraft was put into service;\n(h) watercraft specifically intended to be crewed and to carry passengers for commercial purposes, except when they fall within regulation 3(2), regardless of the number of passengers;\n(i) submersibles;\n(j) air cushion vehicles;\n(k) hydrofoils;\n(l) external combustion steam powered watercraft, fuelled by coal, coke, wood, oil or gas;\n(m) amphibious vehicles, that is to say wheeled or track-laying motor vehicles, which are able to operate both on water and on solid land.\n(2) The exhaust emission requirements set out in Part B of Schedule 1 do not apply to the following—\n(a) propulsion engines installed or specifically intended for installation in the following products—\n(i) watercraft intended solely for racing and labelled as such by the manufacturer;\n(ii) experimental watercraft, unless they are placed on the market;\n(iii) watercraft specifically intended to be crewed and to carry passengers for commercial purposes, except when they fall within regulation 3(2) regardless of the number of passengers;\n(iv) submersibles;\n(v) air cushion vehicles;\n(vi) hydrofoils;\n(vii) amphibious vehicles, that is to say wheeled or track-laying motor vehicles, which are able to operate on water and on solid land;\n(b) original historical propulsion engines and individual replicas thereof, which are based on a pre-1950 design, not produced in series and fitted on watercraft referred to in paragraph 4(1)(e) or paragraph 4(1)(h) above;\n(c) propulsion engines built for own use provided that such engines are not subsequently placed on the market for a period of five years beginning with the date on which the watercraft was put into service.\n(3) The noise emission requirements referred to in Part C of Schedule 1 do not apply to—\n(a) any watercraft referred to in paragraph (2); and\n(b) watercraft built for own use, provided that they are not placed on the market for a period of five years beginning with the date on which the watercraft was put into service.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4(1)(g) omitted (E.W.S) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 28 para. 4 (with Sch. 28 para. 41) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2; S.I. 2020/1460, reg. 1(4), Sch. 3 para. 20(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 3.8.2017, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/737/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:09:45.095348+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."
}