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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-pollution-by-sewage-and-garbage-order-2006/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2950",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Sewage and Garbage) Order 2006",
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  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Application and modification of section 131(3) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995",
  "text": "Section 131(3) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (which provides that a person guilty of an offence under that section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £250,000 or on conviction on indictment to a fine) shall apply in respect of such contravention of the regulations made under this Order as may be specified in those regulations as it applies in respect of an offence under section 131, but as if in subsection (3)(a) for “£250,000” there were substituted “£25,000”.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/664",
      "affecting_title": "The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/664",
      "affecting_title": "The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "extended (with modifications) by S.I. 1989/1350, art. 3 (as amended)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1094",
      "affecting_title": "The Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) (Amendment) Order 2025"
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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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