{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-load-line-regulations-1998/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-load-line-regulations-1998/regulation-24.json",
  "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/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Mark of Assigning Authority",
  "text": "(1) The identity of the Assigning Authority may be marked alongside the load line ring either above the horizontal line which passes through the centre of the ring, or above and below it.\n(2) Such a mark shall consist of not more than four initials each measuring approximately 115 millimetres in height and 75 millimetres in width.",
  "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/24",
    "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."
}