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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1970/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1970/schedule-2/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/36",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping Act 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1970",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Board of Trade may make regulations prescribing the procedure to be followed in connection with the making of crew agreements between persons employed in fishing vessels and persons employing them and prescribing the places where such crew agreements are to be made or where an agreement with any person may be added to those contained in such a crew agreement.\n(2) Regulations under this paragraph may make a contravention of any provision thereof an offence punishable on summary conviction with a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scaleor such less amount as may be specified in the regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46; (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G and (N.I.) S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3), art. 5, 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1 extended by S.I. 1991/1365, reg. 2, Sch. Pt.I"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/36/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:05.091848+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."
}