{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shipbuilding-and-ship-repairing-regulations-1960/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shipbuilding-and-ship-repairing-regulations-1960/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "General access to vessels in a shipyard",
  "text": "All main gangways giving general access to a vessel in a shipyard, whether from the ground or from a wharf or quay, and all cross gangways leading from such a main gangway on to the vessel, shall—\n(a) be sufficiently wide having regard to the number of persons employed on or at the vessel; and\n(b) be securely protected on each side to a height of at least two feet nine inches by strongly constructed upper and lower hand-rails and by a secure toe-board projecting at least six inches above the floor; and\n(c) be of good construction, sound material and adequate strength; and\n(d) be stable and, wherever practicable, of permanent construction; and\n(e) be kept in position as long as required.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/735",
      "affecting_title": "The Work at Height Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1960/1932/regulation/7",
    "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."
}