{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995/section-255E",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995/section-255E.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/21",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995",
  "path": "section/255E",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "255E",
  "heading": "Imposition of conditions about removal",
  "text": "(1) This section applies if the Secretary of State has given a registered owner a wreck removal notice.\n(2) The Secretary of State may impose conditions as to the removal of the wreck in accordance with paragraph 4 of Article 9 of the Wrecks Convention.\n(3) A condition is imposed by giving notice of it to the registered owner.\n(4) A registered owner who fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a condition is guilty of an offence.\n(5) A registered owner guilty of the offence is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £50,000, or\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine\non summary conviction, or on conviction on indictment, to a fine.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 9A inserted (5.2.2015 for the insertion of ss. 255A, 255J, 255N, 255R for specified purposes, 14.4.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Wreck Removal Convention Act 2011 (c. 8), ss. 1(2), 2(2); S.I. 2015/133, arts. 2, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 255E(5) substituted (E.W.) (12.3.2015) by The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/664), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 27(13) (with reg. 5(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/21/section/255E",
    "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."
}