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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-load-line-amendment-rules-1990/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2128",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Load Line) (Amendment) Rules 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-load-line-amendment-rules-1990",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 26th October 1990\nLaid before Parliament 6th November 1990\nComing into force 27th November 1990\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(1), (4) and (5) of the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 and now vested in him, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Rules:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See S.I. 1970/1537, 1974/692, 1983/1127."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2128/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."
}