{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-mandatory-ships-routeing-regulations-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1341",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Mandatory Ships’ Routeing) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-mandatory-ships-routeing-regulations-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 21st May 1997\nLaid before Parliament 3rd June 1997\nComing into force 24th June 1997\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; sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Securities Act 1997 (c. 28), section 8."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1341/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."
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