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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-carriage-of-cargoes-amendment-regulations-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2366",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Carriage of Cargoes) (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-carriage-of-cargoes-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 24th September 1997\nLaid before Parliament 8th October 1997\nComing into force 1st November 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 powers conferred on him 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": 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 Security Act 1997 (c. 28), section 8."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2366/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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