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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-mandatory-ship-reporting-regulations-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1749",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Mandatory Ship Reporting) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-mandatory-ship-reporting-regulations-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 5th July 1996\nLaid before Parliament 11th July 1996\nComing into force 1st August 1996\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, after consulting the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 85(1) (a) and (b), (3), (5) and (7) and section 86(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": "1995 c. 21."
    }
  ],
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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."
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