{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-certification-of-ships-cooks-regulations-1981/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-certification-of-ships-cooks-regulations-1981/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/1076",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Certification of Ships' Cooks) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-certification-of-ships-cooks-regulations-1981",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMASTERS AND SEAMEN\nMade 27th July 1981\nLaid before Parliament 5th August 1981\nComing into Operation 1st September 1981\nThe Secretary of State, after consulting with the organisations referred to in section 99(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970 and the persons referred to in section 22(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 43(1), (3) and (4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970 and now vested in him and by section 21(1)(a), (3)(e), (4)(a) and (5) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 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": "section 43 was amended by the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (c.39), section 37(2) and (3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See S.I. 1970/1537."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1076/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:35:37.261476+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."
}