{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-marine-equipment-regulations-1999/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-marine-equipment-regulations-1999/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1957",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Marine Equipment) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-marine-equipment-regulations-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMade 6th July 1999\nLaid before Parliament 15th July 1999\nComing into force 5th August 1999\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to maritime transport, and having consulted the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 in so far as the following Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 85 and 86 of that Act, in exercise of the powers conferred by–\n(i) section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, and\n(ii) sections 85(1)(a) and (b), (3), (5) to (7) and 86(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995,\nand 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": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/757."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), section 8 and are applied to hovercraft by the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1350)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1957/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:54.681891+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."
}