{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seafarers-wages-regulations-2024/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seafarers-wages-regulations-2024/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1015",
  "legislation_title": "The Seafarers’ Wages Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seafarers-wages-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Declarations",
  "text": "(1) A harbour authority which is required to request an equivalence declaration must do so within the period of 28 days beginning with the day specified in paragraph (2).\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the day specified is whichever is the later of—\n(a) the day on which the harbour authority has reasonable grounds to believe that ships providing a relevant service will enter, or have entered, its harbour on at least 120 occasions during a relevant year;\n(b) the first day of the relevant year to which the request relates.\n(3) A request for an equivalence declaration must include the date on which it is sent.\n(4) An operator providing a declaration in response to a request by a harbour authority to provide an equivalence declaration must provide that declaration—\n(a) within the period of three months beginning with the date of the request from the harbour authority, and\n(b) in the form prescribed in Schedule 1.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2025) by The Seafarers' Wages (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/289), regs. 1(2), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 1.12.2024, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 3(2) of the Act for the meaning of “equivalence declaration”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1015/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:25:54.729234+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."
}