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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-life-saving-appliances-amendment-regulations-2001/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-life-saving-appliances-amendment-regulations-2001/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2642",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) (Amendment) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-life-saving-appliances-amendment-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 14th August 2001.\n(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances for Passenger Ships of Classes III to VI(A)) Regulations 1999.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/2723."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2642/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:34:03.499544+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."
}