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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1983/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1983/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/13",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1983",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make further provision in respect of the registration of small ships and the appointment of registrars at ports.\n[11th April 1983]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "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. 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act excluded by S.I. 1989/1991, arts. 11–14"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent see s. 11(3); Act wholly in force at 17. 11. 1983 see S.I. 1983/1435 and 1601."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/13/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:09:29.420146+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."
}