{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-ship-bilge-alarm-regulations-2021/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-ship-bilge-alarm-regulations-2021/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2021/592",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Cargo Ship) (Bilge Alarm) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-ship-bilge-alarm-regulations-2021",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Merchant Shipping\nSafety\nMade 17th May 2021\nLaid before Parliament 24th May 2021\nComing into force 30th June 2021\nThe Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 85(1), (3)(a), (d) and (f), (6) and (7) and 86(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, and having consulted the persons referred to in section 86(4) of that Act, makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "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). There are other amendments to section 85 which are not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/592/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:13:31.335111+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."
}