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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fire-protection-non-united-kingdom-non-solas-ships-amendment-rules-1993/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3161",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Fire Protection) (Non-United Kingdom) (Non-SOLAS Ships) (Amendment) Rules 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fire-protection-non-united-kingdom-non-solas-ships-amendment-rules-1993",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 4th December 1993\nLaid before Parliament 7th January 1994\nComing into force 31st January 1994\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 427(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 and now vested in him and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Rules:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1894 c. 60; section 427 was substituted by section 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949 (c. 43), and subsection (1) was amended by section 9 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1964 (c. 47)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See S.I. 1970/1537."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3161/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."
}