{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-life-saving-appliances-amendment-rules-1977/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-life-saving-appliances-amendment-rules-1977/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/229",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) (Amendment) Rules 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-life-saving-appliances-amendment-rules-1977",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) Rules 1965 as amended, shall be further amended as follows:—\nAfter paragraph (3) of Part I of Schedule 9, there shall be added the following paragraph:—\n“(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of the foregoing paragraphs of this Part of this Schedule, any liferaft the inflatable chambers or floor of which are made of rubber-proofed cotton—\n(a) made on or before 31st December 1965, shall be treated as not complying with the requirements of this Part of this Schedule on or after 1st July 1978;\n(b) made on or after 1st January 1966, shall be treated as not complying with the requirements of this Part of this Schedule on or after 1st July 1979.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1965 II, p. 2940)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "These amendments are not relevant to the subject matter of these Rules."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/229/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:09:32.964073+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."
}