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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-and-maritime-security-act-1997-commencement-no-2-order-1997/schedule",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1539",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-and-maritime-security-act-1997-commencement-no-2-order-1997",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "PROVISIONS COMING INTO FORCE ON 17TH JULY 1997",
  "text": "Provisions of the Act\nSubject matter of provision\nSection 2\nPowers of intervention where shipping accident threatens pollution\nSection 3\nPowers of intervention in cases of pollution by substances other than oil\nSection 4\nPowers of fire authorities\nSection 6\nIndemnities in connection with counter-pollution measures\nSection 7\nIncreased penalty for causing pollution, etc.\nSection 14\nCarriage of hazardous and noxious substances\nSection 15\nLimitation of liability\nSection 17\nFinancial assistance for training\nSection 18\nDischarge books\nSection 19\nPowers of general lighthouse authorities\nSection 20\nDisclosure of information to general lighthouse authorities\nSection 21\nCertain duties not to apply to RNLI\nSection 22\nDisposal of unclaimed wreck\nSection 23\nRetention of documents by Registrar General\nSection 25\nAmendments of Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990\nSection 26\nPiracy\nSection 27\nApplication of section 1 of International Organisations Act 1968 to International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund\nSection 29\nMinor and consequential amendments, etc.\nSchedule 3\nProvisions to be inserted as Schedule 5A to the Merchant Shipping Act 1995\nSchedule 4\nAmendments of Part III of Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990\nSchedule 5\nProvisions of United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to be treated as part of the law of nations\nSchedule 6 so far as it is not already in force\nMinor and consequential amendments\nSchedule 7 so far as it is not already in in force\nRepeals and Revocations",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1539/schedule",
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  "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."
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