{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-oil-pollution-virgin-islands-order-1997/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-oil-pollution-virgin-islands-order-1997/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2590",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) (Virgin Islands) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-oil-pollution-virgin-islands-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Implementation of the Liability and Fund Conventions",
  "text": "Sections 152 to 170 and 172 to 181 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, subject to the exceptions, adaptations and modifications set out in the Schedule to this Order, shall extend to the Virgin Islands, and any instrument made, or to be made, under section 152(2), 157(2), 157(4), 172(2) or 176(5) shall also extend to the Virgin Islands.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 158(2) was amended and section 158(2A) was added, by section 29(1) and Schedule 6 paragraph 4 of the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (1997 c. 28)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2590/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:44:42.417965+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."
}