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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-code-of-safe-working-practices-for-merchant-seamen-regulations-1998/regulation-3",
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  "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": "regulation/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "These Regulations shall apply to all United Kingdom ships except fishing vessels and pleasure vessels.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/680",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships) (Safety Code for UK Categorised Waters) Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/1075",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Technical Requirements for Inland Waterway Vessels) Regulations 2010"
    }
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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."
}