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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-pollution-and-merchant-shipping-revocation-regulations-2013/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2944",
  "legislation_title": "The Marine Pollution and Merchant Shipping (Revocation) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-pollution-and-merchant-shipping-revocation-regulations-2013",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Marine Pollution\nMerchant Shipping\nSafety\nMade 11th November 2013\nLaid before Parliament 22nd November 2013\nComing into force 31st December 2013\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(2) of the Prevention of Oil Pollution Act 1971, and sections 86(2)(c) and 142(1) to (5) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, makes the following Regulations.\nThe Secretary of State is satisfied that no persons in the United Kingdom will be affected by the exercise of powers in this instrument under section 86 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and that no consultation is necessary in accordance with section 86(4) of that Act.\nThe Secretary of State has had regard, in so far as it relates to the pollution of the sea by oil, to the provisions of the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic 1992 (including its Annexes) signed in Paris on 22nd September 1992, in accordance with section 1(2) of the Prevention of Oil Pollution Act 1971.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 60. Section 1(1), (3) and (4) was repealed by S.I. 1983/1106, article 2 and the Schedule. Section 1(2) remains in force for the purposes of section 3. Regulation 18 of S.I. 2005/2055 limits the application of section 1 as it relates to discharges to which section 3 applies."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1995 c. 21. Section 86(2)(c) of this Act enables the Secretary of State to make transitional provisions in connection with modifications made by virtue of section 86(2)(a) or (b) in consequence or in anticipation of the making of safety regulations under section 85 of that Act. There are amendments to section 86 which are not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic 1992 (“OSPAR Convention”) replaced the 1972 Oslo Convention (which regulated dumping at sea) and the 1974 Paris Convention (which extended the 1972 Convention to land-based sources and the offshore industry). The OSPAR Convention entered into force on 25th March 1998."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2944/introduction",
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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."
}