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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-oil-pollution-order-1983/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1983/1106",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Oil Pollution) Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-oil-pollution-order-1983",
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  "number": "4",
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  "text": "Section 2(4) of the Act of 1971 (which provides that a person guilty of an offence under that section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £50,000 or on conviction on indictment to a fine) shall apply in respect of any contravention of the Regulations made under this Order as may be prescribed by those Regulations as it applies to an offence under section 2 of that Act.",
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      "affecting_title": "The Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/664",
      "affecting_title": "The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "amendment to earlier affecting provision S.I. 1989/1350, art. 3",
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  "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."
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