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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-oil-pollution-order-1983/article-5",
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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",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Sections 55 to 58 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970 (which relate to investigations of shipping casualties) shall apply in respect of any discharge from a ship which may have been made in contravention of any Regulations made under this Order as they apply in relation to any damage caused by a ship.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": ", amended by ss.28 and 32 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (c.39) and by para. 90 of Schedule 7 to the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c.43)."
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  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/1106/article/5",
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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."
}