{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-carriage-of-packaged-irradiated-nuclear-fuel-etc-inf-code-regulations-2000/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3216",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Carriage of Packaged Irradiated Nuclear Fuel etc.) (INF Code) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-carriage-of-packaged-irradiated-nuclear-fuel-etc-inf-code-regulations-2000",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MARINE POLLUTION\nMERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 7th December 2000\nLaid before Parliament 7th December 2000\nComing into force 1st January 2001\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:\n(a) section 85(1)(a) and (b), (3) and (5) to (7) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;\n(b) article 3 of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Order 1987;\n(c) article 3 of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Order 1990;\nand 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."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sections 85 and 86 were amended by section 8 of the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), and are applied to hovercraft by the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1350)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/470 amended by S.I. 1990/2595 and S.I. 1997/2569."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/2595."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3216/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:09:30.238525+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."
}