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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1906/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1906/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/6/48",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping Act 1906",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1906",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1900.\n[21st December 1906]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Power to adapt provisions of Act conferred by Merchant Shipping Act 1970 (c. 36), s. 90"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Functions of Board of Trade now exercisable by Secretary of State by virtue of S.I. 1970/1537, art. 2 and S.I. 1983/1127, art. 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act amended by S.I. 1983/708, regs. 1(3)(4)(b), 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act modified by Merchant Shipping Act 1988 (c. 12, SIF 111), s. 47(2)(b) (with s. 58(4), Sch. 8 para. 1) and by S.I. 1989/1991, art. 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act excluded by S.I. 1989/1991, arts. 11–14"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/6/48/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:43.082652+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."
}