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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ministry-of-defence-commercially-managed-ships-order-1992/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1293",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Ministry of Defence Commercially Managed Ships) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ministry-of-defence-commercially-managed-ships-order-1992",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“Ministry of Defence commercially managed ship” means a Government ship in the service of the Ministry of Defence, the management of which is entrusted by the Secretary of State to some other person pursuant to a contract;\n“the 1894 Act” means the Merchant Shipping Act 1894;\n“the Acts” means the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1988;\n“Secretary of State” means the Secretary of State for Defence.\n(2) In this Order, any reference to a numbered article is a reference to the article so numbered in this Order.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1293/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:22:11.465947+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."
}