{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/docks-shipbuilding-etc-metrication-regulations-1983/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/docks-shipbuilding-etc-metrication-regulations-1983/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1983/644",
  "legislation_title": "The Docks, Shipbuilding etc. (Metrication) Regulations 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/docks-shipbuilding-etc-metrication-regulations-1983",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as The Docks, Shipbuilding etc. (Metrication) Regulations 1983 and shall come into operation on the 1st June 1983.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, “the principal instruments” means the Regulations and Orders amended by these Regulations, that is to say:—\nThe Docks Regulations 1925;\nThe Docks Regulations 1934;\nThe Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing Regulations 1960;\nThe Shipbuilding (Lifting Appliances etc. Forms) Order 1961;\nThe Docks Certificates (No. 2) Order 1964.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": ", amended by S.I. 1964/530."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/195",
      "affecting_title": "The Lifting Plant and Equipment (Records of Test and Examination etc.) Regulations 1992"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/644/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:02:54.420312+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."
}