{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995/section-69",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995/section-69.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/21",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995",
  "path": "section/69",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "Procedure where inquiry into fitness or conduct of officer or other seaman is held by sheriff.",
  "text": "Where an inquiry under section 61 or 63 is held in Scotland by a sheriff—\n(a) he shall (subject to rules made under section 65(1)) dispose of the inquiry as a summary application; and\n(b) (subject to section 64) his decision on the inquiry shall be final.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 62-69 applied (7.8.2014) by The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Minimum Requirements for Seafarers etc.) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1613), regs. 1(2), 38(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/21/section/69",
    "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."
}