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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-medical-examination-amendment-regulations-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1919",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Medical Examination) (Amendment) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-medical-examination-amendment-regulations-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in SI 2002/2055 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.\nMERCHANT SHIPPING\nMade 13th July 2005\nLaid before Parliament 18th July 2005\nComing into force 9th August 2005\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 upon him by sections 85 and 86(1) of that Act, 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 Security Act 1997 (c. 28), section 8 and are applied to hovercraft by virtue of the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1350) to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
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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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