{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-load-lines-act-1967-unregistered-ships-order-1991/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-load-lines-act-1967-unregistered-ships-order-1991/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2543",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 (Unregistered Ships) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-load-lines-act-1967-unregistered-ships-order-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 7th November 1991\nLaid before Parliament 15th November 1991\nComing into force 1st January 1992\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 29(2) 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 Order:",
  "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."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2543/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."
}