{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-etc-act-1993-repealed-111996/schedule-4/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-etc-act-1993-repealed-111996/schedule-4/paragraph-6.json",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 Act 1993 (repealed 1.1.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-etc-act-1993-repealed-111996",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/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts (which expressly or by implication apply to or in relation to British ships), namely—\n(a) in the 1894 Act—\nsection 458 (shipowner’s obligation as to seaworthiness);\n. . .\nsection 689 (returns in cases of offences abroad);\nsection 723 (powers to require production of ship’s documents, etc.); and\n(b) section 18 of the 1979 Act (exclusion of liability),\nshall apply only to United Kingdom ships.\n(2) The following provisions of those Acts (duties of masters of ships to give assistance at sea), namely—\n(a) section 422 of the 1894 Act;\n(b) . . .\n(c) section 22 of the 1949 Act,\nshall apply in relation to United Kingdom ships and to foreign ships when in United Kingdom waters.\n(3) Sections 16 and 17 of the 1974 Act (regulations for submersible and supporting apparatus) shall have effect with the omission, in section 16(1)(b), of the words following “United Kingdom”.\n(4) Sections 21 and 22 of the 1979 Act (safety regulations) shall have effect with the substitution in section 21(1)(c), for the reference to a port in the United Kingdom, of a reference to United Kingdom national waters.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 6(1)(a)(2)(b) repealed (1.1.1995) by 1994 c. 28, s. 10(3), Sch. 4; S.I. 1994/2971, art. 2, Sch. 4 (which amending Act was repealed (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 21, s. 314(1), Sch. 12)"
    }
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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."
}