{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-categorisation-of-registries-of-relevant-british-possessions-order-2003/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1248",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Categorisation of Registries of Relevant British Possessions) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-categorisation-of-registries-of-relevant-british-possessions-order-2003",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and revocation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Categorisation of Registries of Relevant British Possessions) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 10th June 2003.\n(2) The Merchant Shipping (Categorisation of Registries of Overseas Territories) Order 1992 and the Merchant Shipping (Categorisation of Registries of Overseas Territories) (Gibraltar) Order 1996 are hereby revoked.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/1736, amended by 1996/280."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/280."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1248/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:24:26.676912+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."
}