{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-life-saving-appliances-second-amendment-rules-1969/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-life-saving-appliances-second-amendment-rules-1969/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1969/409",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) (Second Amendment) Rules 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-life-saving-appliances-second-amendment-rules-1969",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 20th March 1969\nLaid before Parliament 28th March 1969\nComing into Operation 1st May 1969\nThe Board of Trade in exercise of their powers under section 427 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894, as substituted by section 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949 and amended by section 9 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1964 and as having effect by virtue of the Transfer of Functions (Shipping and Construction of Ships) Order 1965, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf hereby make the following Rules:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1965 I, p. 438)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1969/409/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."
}