{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shippingliner-conferences-act-1982/schedule/part-ONE/chapter-III/crossheading-article-7-loyalty-arrangements/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shippingliner-conferences-act-1982/schedule/part-ONE/chapter-III/crossheading-article-7-loyalty-arrangements/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/37",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping(Liner Conferences) Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shippingliner-conferences-act-1982",
  "path": "schedule/part/ONE/chapter/III/crossheading/article-7-loyalty-arrangements/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Whatever loyalty arrangements are made, the freight rate applicable to loyal shippers shall be determined within a fixed range of percentages of the freight rate applicable to other shippers. Where a change in the differential causes an increase in the rates charged to shippers, the change can be implemented only after 150 days’ notice to those shippers or according to regional practice and/or agreement. Disputes in connexion with a change of the differential shall be settled as provided in the loyalty agreement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/37/schedule/part/ONE/chapter/III/crossheading/article-7-loyalty-arrangements/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:11:00.846138+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."
}