{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-international-safety-management-ism-code-regulations-1998/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-international-safety-management-ism-code-regulations-1998/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1561",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (International Safety Management (ISM) Code) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-international-safety-management-ism-code-regulations-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 24th June 1998\nLaid before Parliament 29th June 1998\nComing into force 1st July 1998\nWhereas in so far as these Regulations are made under section 85 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 the Secretary of State has consulted the persons referred to in section 86(4) of that Act;\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by—\n(i) section 85(1)(a) and (b), (3) and (5) to (7) and 86(1) of that Act; and\n(ii) the Merchant Shipping (Control of Pollution) (SOLAS) Order 1998;\nand 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. 1995 c. 21; sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28) section 8, and apply to hovercraft by virtue of the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/135)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/1500."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1561/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."
}