{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highlands-and-islands-shipping-services-act-1960/section-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/31",
  "legislation_title": "Highlands and Islands Shipping Services Act 1960",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highlands-and-islands-shipping-services-act-1960",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Assistance to persons providing sea transport services.",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of maintaining and improving sea transport services serving the Highlands and Islands (hereinafter referred to as “the purposes of this Act”) the Secretary of State may assist in accordance with this Act persons—\n(a) who provide, and are wholly or mainly engaged in providing, such services,\n(b) who provide such services and are local authorities within the meaning of the Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act 1937, or\n(c) who propose to provide such services.\n(2) In the foregoing subsection “sea transport services” means public transport services (including such services ancillary thereto as are necessary for the proper functioning thereof) provided in an undertaking which consists of, or includes to a substantial extent, the provision of public transport by sea.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act ceases to have effect (10.10.2005) by virtue of Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 12), s. 45(1)(2), 54(2); S.S.I. 2005/454, art. 2, sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1937 c. 28."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/31/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:11:14.816410+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."
}