{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-offshore-employment-order-1976/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-offshore-employment-order-1976/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1976/766",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Protection (Offshore Employment) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-offshore-employment-order-1976",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) Offences under the applied provision (offences connected with employment to which this Order applies) are excluded from the operation of section 3 of the Territorial Waters Jurisdiction Act 1878 (consents required for prosecutions).\n(2) Proceedings for any offence under the applied provisions (including cases where but for (1) above section 3 of the 1878 Act would apply) shall not be brought in England and Wales except by or with the consent of the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/766/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:24:59.461908+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."
}