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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-formal-investigations-rules-1985/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1985/1001",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Formal Investigations) Rules 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-formal-investigations-rules-1985",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMade 1st July 1985\nLaid before Parliament 10th July 1985\nComing into Operation 1st August 1985\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of powers conferred by section 58(1) and (2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970 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": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See S.I. 1970/1537."
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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."
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