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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-hours-of-work-regulations-1995/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/157",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Hours of Work) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-hours-of-work-regulations-1995",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 20th January 1995\nLaid before Parliament 7th February 1995\nComing into force 28th February 1995\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 by sections 21(1) (a), (3) and (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 1982 (c. 48), section 49(3)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/157/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."
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