{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-light-dues-regulations-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-light-dues-regulations-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/278",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-light-dues-regulations-2025",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any ship (including a pleasure vessel) which is laid up, and—\n(a) where the ship has opted to make annual payments under regulation 4(3)(a), the exemption only applies if the ship is laid up for the whole year for which the annual payment is due, or\n(b) where the ship has opted to make payments over two periods of six months each under regulation 4(3)(b), the exemption only applies for each six month period if the ship is laid up for the whole of that period.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 9 in force at 1.4.2025, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/278/schedule/1/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:19:17.895420+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."
}