{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-oil-pollution-act-1971-repealed-111996/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-oil-pollution-act-1971-repealed-111996/section-9.json",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  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971 (repealed 1.1.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-oil-pollution-act-1971-repealed-111996",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/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Extinguishment of claims.",
  "text": "No action to enforce a claim in respect of a liability incurred under section 1 or 1A of this Act shall be entertained by any court in the United Kingdom unless the action is commenced not later than three years after the claim arose nor later than six years after the occurrence or first of the occurrences resulting in the discharge or escape by reason of which the liability was incurred.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 9 inserted (1.10.1994) by 1994 c. 28, s. 6, Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 4; S.I. 1994/1988, art. 3, Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/59/section/9",
    "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."
}