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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-merchant-navy-reserve-regulations-1989/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/662",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Merchant Navy Reserve) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-merchant-navy-reserve-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) Contravention of the requirement to report for duty in regulation 4 or of the requirement to serve in regulation 5(2) shall be an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding the third level on the standard scale.\n(2) It shall be a defence to a charge of contravention of the requirement in regulation 5(2) to serve without absence that the member can show that he had been granted leave of absence. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/662/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:45:30.432427+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."
}