{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995/section-130D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995/section-130D.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/21",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995",
  "path": "section/130D",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "130D",
  "heading": "Supplementary.",
  "text": "(1) The regulations may provide that where a person contravenes a requirement under the regulations he is guilty of an offence and is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, and\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine or to both.\n(2) The regulations may—\n(a) provide for exemptions from any provision of the regulations;\n(b) provide for references in the regulations to any specified document to operate as references to that document as revised or re-issued from time to time;\n(c) make different provision for different cases;\n(d) include such incidental, supplemental and transitional provision as appears to the Secretary of State to be expedient.\n(3) Regulations under section 130A which contain any provision of a description mentioned in section 130C (whether or not they also contain other provision) shall not be made unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing the regulations has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.\n(4) A statutory instrument containing regulations under section 130A to which subsection (3) above does not apply (including regulations which revoke provision of a description mentioned in section 130C but do not contain any other provision made by virtue of section 130C) shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. VI Ch. IA (ss. 130A-130E) inserted (19.3.1997) by 1997 c. 28, ss. 5, 31(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 130A-130E extended (with modifications) (16.10.2025) by S.I. 1989/1350, art. 3 (as amended by The Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) (Amendment) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/1094), arts. 1(2), 2(3)(d)(f))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/21/section/130D",
    "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."
}