{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995/schedule-3A/paragraph-19",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/21",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995",
  "path": "schedule/3A/paragraph/19",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A direction under paragraph 1 or 2, in so far as it relates to a risk to safety, may have effect in respect of a ship only if it is in United Kingdom waters and—\n(a) it is not a qualifying foreign ship, or\n(b) it is a qualifying foreign ship which in the Secretary of State’s opinion is exercising neither the right of innocent passage nor the right of transit passage through straits used for international navigation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3A inserted (10.9.2003) by Marine Safety Act 2003 (c. 16), s. 4, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/21/schedule/3A/paragraph/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:07.847944+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."
}