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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fire-protection-amendment-regulations-1993/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3163",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Fire Protection) (Amendment) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fire-protection-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 14th December 1993\nLaid before Parliament 7th January 1994\nComing into force 31st January 1994\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, after consulting the persons referred to in section 22(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 21(1)(a) and (b) 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."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Subsection (6) was amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1986 (c. 48), section 49(3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3163/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."
}