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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-minimum-standards-of-safety-communications-amendment-regulations-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1704",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards of Safety Communications) (Amendment) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-minimum-standards-of-safety-communications-amendment-regulations-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note does not form part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards of Safety Communications) Regulations 1997, to take account of changes made to Council Directive 94/58/EC on the minimum level of training for seafarers made by Council Directive 98/35 (OJ No. L172, 17.6.98, page 1).\nThe principal change is that a common working language is required to be established on passenger ships and hovercraft.\nThe STCW Convention 1978 and its 1995 amendments are obtainable from the International Maritime Organization, 4 Albert Embankment, London SE1 4SR.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1704/note",
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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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