{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-control-of-pollution-by-noxious-liquid-substances-in-bulk-regulations-1987/regulation-26",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/551",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Control of Pollution by Noxious Liquid Substances in Bulk) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-control-of-pollution-by-noxious-liquid-substances-in-bulk-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Equivalents",
  "text": "Where these Regulations require that a particular fitting, material, appliance or apparatus should be fitted in a ship, the Secretary of State may allow any other fitting, material, appliance or apparatus to be fitted if he is satisfied that such fitting, material, appliance or apparatus is at least as effective as that required by these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2083",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Control of Pollution by Noxious Liquid Substances in Bulk) (Amendment) Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/551/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:28:56.299532+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."
}