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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1974/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1974/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/43",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1974",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make further provision concerning oil pollution by ships and related matters; to give power to protect shipping and trading interests against foreign action concerning or affecting carriage of goods by sea; to make provision relating to the operation of submersible apparatus; to alter the constitution of the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses; and to amend certain provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970 relating to offences committed by seamen.\n[31st July 1974]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "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. 10Act: power to modify conferred (prosp.) by 1994 c. 28, ss. 5(3)(a), 10(4) (which amending Act was repealed (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 21, s. 314(1), Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act excluded by S.I. 1989/1991, arts. 11–14"
    }
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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."
}