{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serbia-and-montenegro-united-nations-sanctions-dependent-territories-order-1993/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serbia-and-montenegro-united-nations-sanctions-dependent-territories-order-1993/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1195",
  "legislation_title": "The Serbia and Montenegro (United Nations Sanctions) (Dependent Territories) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serbia-and-montenegro-united-nations-sanctions-dependent-territories-order-1993",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Prohibition on entering territorial sea of Montenegro",
  "text": "(1) Except under the authority of a licence granted by the Governor under this article no ship to which this article applies shall enter the territorial sea of Montenegro.\n(2) The owner, operator and master of such a ship which enters such waters shall each be guilty of an offence under this Order.\n(3) This article applies to any ship which is—\n(a) (i) registered in the Territory; or\n(ii) not registered in any country but is majority owned by a British citizen, a British Dependent Territories citizen, a British Overseas citizen, a British subject or a British protected person, who is ordinarily resident in the Territory, or a body corporate incorporated in the Territory; and\n(b) is being used for commercial purposes.\n(4) In the case of proceedings for an offence under this article it shall be a defence for the accused person to prove—\n(a) that he did not know and could not reasonably have known that the ship was entering the territorial sea of Montenegro; or\n(b) that the ship only entered such waters by reason of stress of weather or other case of force majeure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1195/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:57:19.135378+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."
}