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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-and-passenger-ship-construction-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2023/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2023/246",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Cargo and Passenger Ship Construction and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-and-passenger-ship-construction-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2023",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been made in part to correct errors in S.I. 1998/2070, S.I. 2021/592, S.I. 2021/1316 and S.I. 2022/1169 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Statutory Instruments.\nMerchant Shipping\nSafety\nMade 6th March 2023\nLaid before Parliament 7th March 2023\nComing into force 29th March 2023\nThe Secretary of State, after consulting the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, and in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 85(1), (3) and (5) to (7), 86(1)(a), (b), (c) and (d), 302(1) and 306A of that Act, article 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution) (Law of the Sea Convention) Order 1996, and article 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Control of Pollution) (SOLAS) Order 1998, and with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations excluded (12.12.2025) by The Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1195), reg. 1(1), Sch. 3 (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21. Sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), sections 8 and 29(2) and Schedule 7, Part 1. Section 85 was amended by the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 (c. 8), section 2(3). Section 306A was inserted by the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), section 106. There are other amendments but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/282. Article 2 was amended by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), Schedule 4, Part 1, paragraph 3 and S.I. 2022/844."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/1500."
    }
  ],
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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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