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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-medical-certification-regulations-2010/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/737",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Medical Certification) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-medical-certification-regulations-2010",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Merchant Shipping\nMade 10th March 2010\nLaid before Parliament 12th March 2010\nComing into force 6th April 2010\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 85(1)(a) and (b), (1A), (1B), (3) and (5) to (7) and section 86(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 .\nIn accordance with section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act the Secretary of State has consulted the persons referred to in that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21. Sections 85 and 86 were amended by section 8 of the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c.28), and are applied to hovercraft by the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1350), to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and section 3 of the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7). The Maritime and Labour Convention is specified as one of the Community Treaties by the European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Maritime Labour Convention) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1757)."
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/737/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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