{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shippingliner-conferences-act-1982/schedule/part-ONE/chapter-IV/crossheading-article-14-general-freightrate-increases/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shippingliner-conferences-act-1982/schedule/part-ONE/chapter-IV/crossheading-article-14-general-freightrate-increases/paragraph-6.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/IV/crossheading/article-14-general-freightrate-increases/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to the provisions of article 14, paragraph 9, a general freight-rate increase may be implemented by a conference pending the conciliators’ recommendation. When making their recommendation, the conciliators should take into account the extent of the above-mentioned increase made by the conference and the period for which it has been in force. In the event that the conference rejects the recommendation of the conciliators, shippers and/or shippers’ organizations shall have the right to consider themselves not bound, after appropriate notice, by any arrangement or other contract with that conference which may prevent them from using non-conference shipping lines. Where a loyalty arrangement exists, shippers and/or shippers’ organizations shall give notice within a period of 30 days to the effect that they no longer consider themselves bound by that arrangement, which notice shall apply from the date mentioned therein, and a period of not less than 30 days and not more than 90 days shall be provided in the loyalty arrangement for this purpose.",
  "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/IV/crossheading/article-14-general-freightrate-increases/paragraph/6",
    "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."
}