{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1979/schedule-6/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1979/schedule-6/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/39",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1979",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In sections 2(2), 3(4), 62(6) and 65(3) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970 (which relate respectively to crew agreements, the discharge of seamen, the return of seamen left overseas and the property of deceased seamen and authorise regulations under the section in question to provide for maximum fines of £50 in the case of section 2(2) and £100 in other cases for contraventions of the regulations) for the word “£50” or, as the case may be, “£100” there shall be substituted the word “£200”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1970 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 Pt. VI para. 8 amended by Merchant Shipping Act 1988 (c. 12, SIF 111), s. 57(4), Sch. 6"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/39/schedule/6/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:14.005654+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."
}