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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ibc-code-amendment-regulations-1990/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ibc-code-amendment-regulations-1990/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2602",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (IBC Code) (Amendment) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ibc-code-amendment-regulations-1990",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MARINE POLLUTION\nMERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 19th December 1990\nLaid before Parliament 21st December 1990\nComing into force 1st January 1991\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by article 3 of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Order 1987 and after consulting with the persons referred to in section 22(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 21(1)(a) and (b), (3), (5) and (6) and section 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": "S.I. 1987/470, amended by S.I. 1990/2595."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1979 c. 39; section 21(6), as amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48), section 49(3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2602/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."
}