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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1979-commencement-no-14-order-1994/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2789",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (Commencement No. 14) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1979-commencement-no-14-order-1994",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into force on 22nd November 1994 section 38(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979, which substitutes special drawing rights for gold francs in certain sections of the Merchant Shipping Act 1974, as the result of the coming into force on that date of the Protocol dated 19th November 1976 to the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1971 (Cmnd 7029). The Order also brings into force consequential repeals in the Merchant Shipping Act 1974.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2789/note",
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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."
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