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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-pollution-act-2006/section-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/8",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping (Pollution) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-pollution-act-2006",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement and extent",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Pollution) Act 2006.\n(2) Sections 1(2)(b) and 3 come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed.\n(3) The amendment made by section 3 is capable of being extended to any relevant British possession under section 315 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/8/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:15:04.419450+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."
}