{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-ship-construction-regulations-1997/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-ship-construction-regulations-1997/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1509",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Cargo Ship Construction) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-ship-construction-regulations-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 7th June 1997\nLaid before Parliament 20th June 1997\nComing into force 11th July 1997\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 by section 85(1)(a) and (b), (3) and (5) to (7) and section 86(1) of that Act, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations excluded (3.8.1998) by The Merchant Shipping (Small Workboats and Pilot Boats) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1609), regs. 1(1), 5(1), 6(1), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Regulations excluded (16.12.1998) by The Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2771), regs. 1(1), 4, Sch. 1 (with reg. 3) (as substituted by S.I. 2016/353, regs. 1(1), 3(1), Sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "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 Securities Act 1997 (c. 8), section 8."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1509/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:07:02.970396+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."
}