{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shipbuilding-and-ship-repairing-regulations-1960/regulation-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shipbuilding-and-ship-repairing-regulations-1960/regulation-39.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1960/1932",
  "legislation_title": "The Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing Regulations 1960",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shipbuilding-and-ship-repairing-regulations-1960",
  "path": "regulation/39",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Splices in wire ropes",
  "text": "A thimble or loop splice made in any wire rope shall have at least three tucks with a whole strand of the rope and two tucks with one half of the wires cut out of each strand. All tucks shall be against the lay of the rope:\nProvided that this Regulation shall not operate to prevent the use of another form of splice which can be shown to be as efficient as the form of splice specified in this Regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1960/1932/regulation/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T00:42:05.315689+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."
}