{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-compensation-to-seamenwar-damage-to-effects-revocation-scheme-1997/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-compensation-to-seamenwar-damage-to-effects-revocation-scheme-1997/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1674",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Compensation to Seamen—War Damage to Effects) (Revocation) Scheme 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-compensation-to-seamenwar-damage-to-effects-revocation-scheme-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMade 8th July 1997\nComing into force 1st August 1997\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, with the consent of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6 and 7 of the Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act 1939 and now vested in him and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Scheme:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1939 c. 83; sections 6 and 7 were amended by the Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Act 1942 (c. 26)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. & O. 1939/1470, 1941/654, 1946/375; S.I. 1953/1204, 1959/1768, 1965/145, 1970/1537."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1674/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:06:05.104078+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."
}