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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-co-operation-with-search-and-rescue-services-regulations-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1692",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Co-operation with Search and Rescue Services) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-co-operation-with-search-and-rescue-services-regulations-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 6th July 1998\nLaid before Parliament 20th July 1998\nComing into force 10th August 1998\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, after consulting the persons referred to in sections 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 85(1)(a) and (b), (3), (5), (7) and 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."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), section 8."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1692/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."
}