The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Medical Certification) Regulations 2010

Meaning of “pleasure vessel”

4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (4), for the purposes of these Regulations a “pleasure vessel” is a vessel of a type described in paragraph (2) or (3).

(2) The first type of pleasure vessel is a vessel—

(a) wholly owned by an individual and used only for the sport or pleasure of the owner or the immediate family or friends of the owner, or

(b) wholly owned by a body corporate and used only for the sport or pleasure of employees or officers of the body corporate, or their immediate family or friends,

which is on a voyage or excursion in respect of which the owner is not paid for or in connection with operating the vessel or carrying any person, other than as a contribution to the direct expenses of the operation of the vessel incurred during the voyage or excursion.

(3) The second type of pleasure vessel is a vessel wholly owned by or on behalf of an unincorporated association formed for the purposes of sport or pleasure which, at the time it is being used, is used only for the sport or pleasure of members of that unincorporated association or their immediate families, and for the use of which any charges levied are paid into the funds of, and applied for the general use of, that unincorporated association.

(4) A vessel is not in paragraph (2) or (3) if payments other than those mentioned in those paragraphs are made by or on behalf of the users of the vessel, other than the owner of the vessel.

(5) In paragraphs (2) and (3) “immediate family” means, in relation to an individual, the spouse or civil partner of the individual, and a sibling, ancestor or lineal descendant of that individual or of that individual’s spouse or civil partner.