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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995/schedule-8/paragraph-2",
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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/8/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Commissioners may elect, as members of their body, the convener of any council whose area includes any part of the coasts of Scotland.\n(2) The Commissioners may elect, as members of their body, not more than three other persons; but a person shall not be elected in pursuance of this sub-paragraph unless either he appears to the Commissioners to have special knowledge and experience of nautical matters or three persons who so appear are members of that body.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 8 para. 2(2) substituted (23.5.2016) by Scotland Act 2016 (c. 11), ss. 55(3), 72(7)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/21/schedule/8/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}