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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-piers-and-ferries-scotland-act-1937/section-18",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/28",
  "legislation_title": "Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act 1937",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-piers-and-ferries-scotland-act-1937",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Responsibility for deficiency.",
  "text": "Any deficiency which is required to be met out of rates in pursuance of section 16 of this Act shall be met by the regional or islands council in whom the marine work is vested, or in the case of a marine work vested in two or more such councils in combination, by those councils in such proportions as may be fixed by the combination agreement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 18 substituted by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Sch. 19 para. 10"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/28/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:34:29.467117+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."
}