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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-liability-and-compensation-for-oil-pollution-damage-transitional-provisions-order-1996/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1143",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Liability and Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage) (Transitional Provisions) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-liability-and-compensation-for-oil-pollution-damage-transitional-provisions-order-1996",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Notwithstanding the coming into force of Chapters III and IV of Part VI of the Act (and the consequent ceasing to have effect of Schedule 4 and Part II of Schedule 5 to that Act), the provisions mentioned in paragraph (2) below and set out in Schedule 1 to this Order (being transitional provisions) shall have the force of law in the United Kingdom, subject to the modifications in Schedule 2 to this Order, and for this purpose the provisions of Schedule 4 and Part II of Schedule 5 to the Act shall continue to have effect.\n(2) The provisions are:\n(i) Article XII bis of the 1969 Liability Convention, inserted by Article 9 of the 1992 Liability Protocol;\n(ii) Article 36 bis of the 1971 Fund Convention, inserted by Article 26 of the 1992 Fund Protocol.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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."
}