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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-code-of-safe-working-practices-for-merchant-seamen-regulations-1998/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-code-of-safe-working-practices-for-merchant-seamen-regulations-1998/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1838",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seamen) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-code-of-safe-working-practices-for-merchant-seamen-regulations-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMade 27th July 1998\nLaid before Parliament 4th August 1998\nComing into Operation 1st September 1998\nThe Secretary of State, after consulting with the persons mentioned in subsection (4) of section 86 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1955, in the exercise of powers conferred by sections 85(1)(a), (5)(a), and (7)(c) and (d) of that Act and of all other powers enabling him on that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21; sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Security Act 1997 (c. 28), section 8 and are applied to hovercraft by virtue of the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/135)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1838/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."
}