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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995/section-120",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995/section-120.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/21",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995",
  "path": "section/120",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "120",
  "heading": "Power to grant exemptions from this Chapter.",
  "text": "The Secretary of State may grant exemptions from any requirements of Part III or this Chapter or of any regulations made thereunder—\n(a) with respect to any fishing vessel or to a fishing vessel of any description; or\n(b) with respect to any person or a person of any description serving in a fishing vessel or in a fishing vessel of any description;\nand nothing in any other provision of Part III or this Chapter conferring a power to provide for or grant exemptions shall be taken to restrict the power conferred by this section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/21/section/120",
    "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."
}