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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-etc-act-1993-repealed-111996/schedule-4/paragraph-45",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/22",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping (Registration, etc.) Act 1993 (repealed 1.1.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-etc-act-1993-repealed-111996",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/45",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 650 of the 1894 Act (distress on ship for light dues)—\n(a) in subsection (1), omit “guns”;\n(b) in subsection (2)—\n(i) for “three” substitute “ five ”; and\n(ii) for “appraised by two sufficient persons or sworn appraisers, and thereupon sell the same” substitute “ independently appraised and thereupon sold by public auction ”; and\n(c) at end add—\n“(3) This section does not apply to Scotland.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/22/schedule/4/paragraph/45",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:06.688625+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."
}