{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-vessels-act-1985/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-vessels-act-1985/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/22",
  "legislation_title": "Dangerous Vessels Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-vessels-act-1985",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Offences.",
  "text": "(1) A person who without reasonable excuse contravenes or fails to comply with any directions given under section 1 above shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £25,000 and on conviction on indictment to a fineon summary conviction, or on conviction on indictment, to a fine.\n(2) It shall be a defence for a person charged under this section to show that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 5(1) substituted (E.W.) (12.3.2015) by The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/664), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 15 (with reg. 5(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/22/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:25.786167+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."
}