The Merchant Shipping (Ships' Doctors) Regulations 1995

UK Statutory Instrument 1995 No. 1803 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created

0recorded in force

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Made: 14 July 1995
In force from: 1 August 1995
Extent: Not stated
Subject: Health and safety, environment, waste and fisheries
Made under: Merchant Shipping Act 1979

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations replace the Merchant Shipping (Ships' Doctors) Regulations 1981. They implement Council Directive 92/29/EEC of 31st March 1992 (O.J. No. L113, 30.4.92, p.19) on the minimum safety and health requirements for improved medical treatment on board vessels, so far as that Directive requires the carrying of doctors. United Kingdom ships are required to have a doctor on board if carrying 100 or more persons on an international voyage of more than three days, or on a voyage during which it is more than one and a half days' sailing time from a port with adequate medical equipment.

Offences created by this instrument

Any contravention of regulation 3 shall be an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding level 5… regulation 4(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability

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