{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-home-office-ships-order-2020/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-home-office-ships-order-2020/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1551",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Home Office Ships) Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-home-office-ships-order-2020",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Merchant Shipping\nMade 16th December 2020\nLaid before Parliament 17th December 2020\nComing into force 7th January 2021\nAt the Court at Windsor Castle, the 16th day of December 2020\nPresent,\nThe Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council\nHer Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 308 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order as follows.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1551/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:20:06.716238+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."
}