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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-anti-fouling-systems-regulations-2024/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-anti-fouling-systems-regulations-2024/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/509",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Anti-Fouling Systems) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-anti-fouling-systems-regulations-2024",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Marine Pollution\nMade 17th April 2024\nLaid before Parliament 18th April 2024\nComing into force 10th May 2024\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by articles 2(1), (2)(a) to (g), (3) and 3 of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution) (Law of the Sea Convention) Order 1996, articles 3 and 4 of the Merchant Shipping (Control of Harmful Anti-Fouling Systems on Ships) Order 2022, sections 128(5) and (6), 302(1) and 306A of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, and with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/282, amended by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), Schedule 4, Part 1, paragraphs 3(1) to (3), S.I. 2022/844 and S.I. 2015/664."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2022/1334."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1995 c. 21. Section 128 was amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), section 29, Schedule 6, paragraphs 3(2) and (3) and Schedule 7, Part I and the Merchant Shipping (Pollution) Act 2006 (c. 8), section 2. Section 306A was inserted by the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), section 106. There is another amending instrument but it is not relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/509/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:31:01.909954+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."
}