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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-load-line-regulations-1998/regulation-23",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2241",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-load-line-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Authorisation of removal, etc., of appropriate marks",
  "text": "After the appropriate marks have been made on a ship,\n(a) it shall be the duty of the owner and master to keep the ship so marked; and\n(b) the marks shall not be concealed, removed, altered, defaced or obliterated except with the authority of the Assigning Authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/1335",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Load Line) (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2241/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:18:50.366535+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."
}