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  "legislation_title": "Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995",
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  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/18",
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  "number": "18",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In any proceedings under the Merchant Shipping Acts it shall not be necessary to produce the official register of the ship referred to in the proceedings in order to prove the nationality of the ship, but the nationality of the ship as stated in the indictment or, as the case may be, complaint shall, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, be presumed.",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:43:46.035735+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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