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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-mariners-benefits-regulations-1975/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1975/470",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Mariners' Benefits) Regulations 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-mariners-benefits-regulations-1975",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Application of the Act and regulations",
  "text": "The provisions relating to industrial injuries benefit of the Act and of the regulations made thereunder shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of these regulations, apply to mariners with this modification, that where a mariner is, on account of his being outside the United Kingdom by reason of his employment as a mariner, unable to perform an act required to be done either forthwith or on the happening of a certain event or within a specified time, he shall be deemed to have complied therewith if he performs the act as soon as is reasonably practicable, although after the happening of the event of the expiration of the specified time.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/470/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:13:05.132208+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."
}