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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-increased-penalties-regulations-1979/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1519",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Increased Penalties) Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-increased-penalties-regulations-1979",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMade 26th November 1979\nLaid before Parliament 4th December 1979\nComing into Operation 1st January 1980\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred by section 1(2)(d) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1965 and, after consulting with the organisations referred to in section 99(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 2(2), 3(4), 62(6), 65(3), 68(5), 69(5), 70(2) and 71(2) of that Act and now vested in him, by paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 5 to the Merchant Shipping Act 1974 and by section 43(3) of, and paragraphs 4, 6, 8 and 20 of Part VI of Schedule 6 to, the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 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. 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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