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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-bridge-visibility-small-passenger-ships-regulations-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2286",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Bridge Visibility) (Small Passenger Ships) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-bridge-visibility-small-passenger-ships-regulations-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 15th August 2005\nLaid before Parliament 16th August 2005\nComing into force 6th September 2005\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, after consulting the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 , in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 85(1)(a) and (b), (3) and (5) to (7) and section 86(1) of that Act , hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), section 8."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2286/introduction",
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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."
}