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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/353",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping Act 1988 (Commencement No. 3) Order 1989",
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  "text": "Notwithstanding the coming into force of paragraph 2(b) of Schedule 1 to the Act (which amends section 7 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 by the omission of subsection (2) thereof) the power of exemption given to the Secretary of State by that sub-section shall continue to have effect in relation to any class of ship in respect of which it was exercised immediately before 1st April 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "text": "1894 c. 60."
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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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