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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-loading-and-stability-assessment-of-roro-passenger-ships-regulations-1989/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-loading-and-stability-assessment-of-roro-passenger-ships-regulations-1989/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/100",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping (Loading and Stability Assessment of Ro/Ro Passenger Ships) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-loading-and-stability-assessment-of-roro-passenger-ships-regulations-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMade 25th January 1989\nLaid before Parliament 30th January 1989\nComing into force\nregulation 8 1st May 1989\nall other regulations 20th February 1989\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, after consulting with the persons referred to in section 22(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 21(1)(a), (3) to (6) and 22(1) of that Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1979 c. 39; section 21(6) was amended by section 49(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/100/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."
}