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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-ship-construction-amendment-regulations-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/643",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Cargo Ship Construction) (Amendment) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-ship-construction-amendment-regulations-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 8th March 1999\nLaid before Parliament 15th March 1999\nComing into force 5th April 1999\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, after consulting the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 85(1)(a) and (b), (3), (5) and (6) and section 86(1) of that Act, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "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 Securities Act 1997 (c. 8), section 8."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/643/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."
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