Governs the safety, security, and environmental standards for merchant ships operating in UK waters, covering vessel construction, equipment, crew qualifications, and pollution prevention. Applies to shipowners, operators, and masters of UK-registered and visiting vessels.
12
Rules extracted
120
Obligations decomposed
10.0x
Avg obligations per rule
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Jurisdiction
The UK Merchant Shipping Regulations provide the statutory framework for vessel registration, safety equipment, manning requirements, pollution prevention, port state control, crew certification, cargo operations, and passenger vessel standards in UK waters. Enforced by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) under the authority of the Department for Transport.
Source
1
Regulation
Extracted
12
Rules
Decomposed
120
Obligations
Decomposition ratio
Each rule is decomposed into an average of 10.0 atomic obligations — the smallest testable units that can be independently violated.
Fully extracted & scored
All 120 obligations have been decomposed, titled, risk-scored, and embedded for semantic matching.
Every obligation in Merchant Shipping Regs is scored across independent risk dimensions:
Obligation Weight
How critical within the regulatory framework
Violation Likelihood
How often breached in practice
Enforcement Evidence
Regulator enforcement history and penalties
Cascade Dependency
How many obligations depend on this one
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