{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-certificates-of-competency-as-ab-nigeria-order-1964/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-certificates-of-competency-as-ab-nigeria-order-1964/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1964/700",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Certificates of Competency as A.B.) (Nigeria) Order 1964",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-certificates-of-competency-as-ab-nigeria-order-1964",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order provides—\n(1) that certificates of competency as A.B. granted in Nigeria shall have the same effect for the purposes of section 5 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1948 as if they had been granted in pursuance of regulations made under that section;\n(2) for the application of section 104 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 (which relates to forgery and other offences relating to certificates of competency of ships' officers granted under that Act) in relation to certificates of competency as A.B. granted in Nigeria.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1964/700/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T00:08:34.251907+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."
}