{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-liability-and-compensation-for-oil-pollution-damage-transitional-provisions-overseas-territories-order-1997/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-liability-and-compensation-for-oil-pollution-damage-transitional-provisions-overseas-territories-order-1997/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2578",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Liability and Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage) (Transitional Provisions) (Overseas Territories) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-liability-and-compensation-for-oil-pollution-damage-transitional-provisions-overseas-territories-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Merchant Shipping (Liability and Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage) (Transitional Provisions) Order 1996, shall extend to each of the following territories subject to the exceptions, adaptations and modifications specified out in the Schedule to this Order:\nAnguilla\nBermuda\nBritish Indian Ocean Territory\nFalkland Islands\nPitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands\nSouth Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands\nSovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia\nTurks and Caicos Islands\nVirgin Islands",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1143."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2019/1110",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Falkland Islands) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2019"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2578/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:46:39.166195+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."
}