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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-oil-pollution-act-1971-repealed-111996/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-oil-pollution-act-1971-repealed-111996/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/59",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971 (repealed 1.1.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-oil-pollution-act-1971-repealed-111996",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Liability for cost of preventive measures where s. 1 does not apply.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) For the purposes of section 17 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (limitation of liability) any liability incurred under section 1A of this Act shall be deemed to be a liability in respect of such damage to property as is mentioned in paragraph 1(a) of article 2 of the Convention in Part I of Schedule 4 to that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 15(1) repealed (1.10.1994) by 1994 c. 28, s. 6, 10(3), Sch. 3, Pt. I para. 5(a), Sch. 4; S.I 1994/1988, art. 3, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 15(2) substituted by Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (c. 39), ss. 19(4), 52(2), Sch. 5 para. 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(2) substituted (1.10.1994) by 1994 c. 28, s. 6, Sch. 3, Pt. I para. 5(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1979 c. 39."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/59/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:42.602256+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."
}