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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1979/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1979/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/39",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1979",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make amendments of the law relating to pilotage, carriage by sea, liability of shipowners and salvors and pollution from ships and other amendments of the law relating to shipping, pollution and seamen.\n[4th April 1979]",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "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. 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act excluded by S.I. 1989/1991, arts. 11–13"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act (other than certain provisions) excluded by S.I. 1989/1991, art. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent see s. 52(2)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/39/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:14.005654+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."
}