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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-emergency-information-for-passengers-regulations-1990/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/660",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Emergency Information for Passengers) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-emergency-information-for-passengers-regulations-1990",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 15th March 1990\nLaid before Parliament 22nd March 1990\nComing into force 12th April 1990\nThe Secretary of State for Transport after consulting with the persons referred to insection 22(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 21(1)(a) and (3) to (6) and 22(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": "1979 c. 39."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/660/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."
}