{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1894/section-540",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1894/section-540.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/57-58/60",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping Act 1894",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1894",
  "path": "section/540",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "540",
  "heading": "Marine store dealer not to purchase from person under sixteen.",
  "text": "(1) A marine store dealer shall not by himself or his agents purchase marine stores of any description from any person apparently under the age of sixteen years.\n(2) If a marine store dealer so purchases any marine store, he shall be liable to a fine for the first offence not exceeding five pounds£25 and for every subsequent offence not exceeding twenty pounds£50.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 538–542 repealed (E.W.S.) by (E.W.) Scrap Metal Dealers Act 1964 (c. 69), Sch. Pt. I and (S.) Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 45, SIF 81:2), s. 137, Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "“£25” substituted (S.) for “five pounds” by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), s. 289C(4)(5)(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "“£50” substituted (S.) for “twenty pounds” by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), s. 289C(4)(5)(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 540(2) amended (N.I.) by Increase of Fines Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 (c. 29), Sch. Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/57-58/60/section/540",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:30:10.844356+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."
}