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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-etc-act-1993-repealed-111996/schedule-4/paragraph-77",
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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 Act 1993 (repealed 1.1.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-etc-act-1993-repealed-111996",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/77",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "77",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 to the 1974 Act (provision as to regulations relating to submersible and supporting apparatus)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (b), after “regulations” insert “ (other than proceedings to which paragraph (bb) below applies) ”; and\n(b) after sub-paragraph (b) insert—\n“(bb) may provide that in any proceedings in Scotland for an offence under the regulations a statement in any complaint or indictment of any such fact as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) above shall, until the contrary is proved, be sufficient evidence of the fact as so stated,”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/22/schedule/4/paragraph/77",
    "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."
}