{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fire-protection-regulations-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fire-protection-regulations-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2951",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Fire Protection) Regulations (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fire-protection-regulations-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Fire Protection) Regulations (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 11th December 2003.\n(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Merchant Shipping (Fire Protection: Large Ships) Regulations 1998.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 11.12.2003, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/1012, amended by S.I. 1999/992, S.I. 2000/2687, S.I. 2001/1638 and S.I. 2002/ ."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2951/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:44:49.413963+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."
}