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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fees-regulations-1995/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fees-regulations-1995/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1893",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fees-regulations-1995",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMade 14th July 1995\nLaid before Parliament 18th July 1995\nComing into force 1st August 1995\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 33(2) of the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949 and now vested in him, and paragraph 79 of Schedule 4 to the Merchant Shipping (Registration, etc.) Act 1993, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the consent and approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1949 c. 43; section 33 was repealed by the Merchant Shipping (Registration, etc.) Act 1993 (c. 22), except that it remains in force for the sole purpose of enabling regulations to be made prescribing maximum fees for measurement of a ship’s tonnage (see S.I. 1993/3137, Schedule 2, appendix)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See S.I. 1990/1537."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1993 c. 22."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1893/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."
}