{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-etc-act-1993-repealed-111996/schedule-4/paragraph-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-etc-act-1993-repealed-111996/schedule-4/paragraph-50.json",
  "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 Act 1993 (repealed 1.1.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-etc-act-1993-repealed-111996",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/50",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For section 666(1) of the 1894 Act (offence of damaging, etc. lighthouses, etc.) substitute—\n“(1) A person who, without lawful authority—\n(a) intentionally or recklessly damages—\n(i) any lighthouse or the lights exhibited in it, or\n(ii) any lightship, buoy or beacon;\n(b) removes, casts adrift or sinks any lightship, buoy or beacon; or\n(c) conceals or obscures any lighthouse, buoy or beacon;\ncommits an offence.\n(1A) A person who, without reasonable excuse,—\n(a) rides by,\n(b) makes fast to, or\n(c) runs foul of,\nany lightship, buoy or beacon commits an offence.”.",
  "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/50",
    "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."
}