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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-merchant-shipping-convention-on-limitation-of-liability-for-maritime-claims-amendment-order-1998/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/1998/0110656016",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims) (Amendment) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-merchant-shipping-convention-on-limitation-of-liability-for-maritime-claims-amendment-order-1998",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;\n“the Convention” means the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, 1976.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The text of the Convention is set out in Schedule 7 to the Act."
    }
  ],
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  "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."
}