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  "legislation": "eur/2012/530",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 530/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2012 on the accelerated phasing-in of double-hull or equivalent design requirements for single-hull oil tankers (recast)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-530",
  "path": "article/8",
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  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Exemptions for ships in difficulty or for ships to be repaired",
  "text": "By way of derogation from Articles 4, 5 and 7, the competent authority of a Member State may, subject to national provisions, allow, under exceptional circumstances, an individual ship to enter or leave a port or offshore terminal or anchor in an area under the jurisdiction of that Member State, when:\n(a) an oil tanker is in difficulty and in search of a place of refuge;\n(b) an unloaded oil tanker is proceeding to a port of repair.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/530/article/8",
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  },
  "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."
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