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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1970-commencement-no-11-order-1995/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/965",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping Act 1970 (Commencement No. 11) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1970-commencement-no-11-order-1995",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMade 29th March 1995\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of powers conferred by section 101(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970 and now vested in him, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1970 c. 36; section 101(4) was amended by section 37(7) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (c. 39)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See S.I. 1970/1537."
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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