{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tonnage-tax-training-requirement-regulations-2000/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tonnage-tax-training-requirement-regulations-2000/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2129",
  "legislation_title": "The Tonnage Tax (Training Requirement) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tonnage-tax-training-requirement-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Higher rate of payment in case of failure to meet training requirement",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), a company or group is to be treated as failing to meet its training commitment in any year where it fails to provide training on a relevant course for at least 50% of the total number of eligible officer trainees (or the equivalent number of posts where the training commitment is satisfied by training ratings under regulation 4(7)) for whom the company or group proposed to provide such training in its training commitment.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3)—\n(a) if a company fails to meet its training commitment in a particular year, the basic rate of any payments in lieu of training that fall to be made by the company in the following year shall be increased by 50%;\n(b) if a group fails to meet its training commitment in a particular year, the basic rate of any payments in lieu of training that fall to be made by any member of the group in the following year shall be increased by 50%; and\n(c) if a company or group fails to meet its training commitment in two or more successive years, the basic rate of any payments in lieu of training shall be increased by 100% in the third and subsequent years.\n(3) The higher rate shall not be payable where the Secretary of State is satisfied that there are mitigating circumstances for the company’s or group’s failure to meet the training commitment.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (2), “the basic rate” is £1,613 per eligible officer trainee per month.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(1) inserted (1.10.2015) by The Tonnage Tax (Training Requirement) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/788), regs. 1, 2(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sum in reg. 21(4) substituted (1.10.2025) by The Tonnage Tax (Training Requirement) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1007), regs. 1, 4(3) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 21 in force at 31.8.2000, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2129/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:49:33.073551+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."
}