{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ministry-of-defence-commercially-managed-ships-order-1992/article-3",
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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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Ministry of Defence Ships) Order 1989",
  "text": "(1) Article 3 (interpretation) of the Merchant Shipping (Ministry of Defence Ships) Order 1989 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In the definition of “Ministry of Defence ship” after the words “other than a Ministry of Defence yacht” there shall be inserted the words “or a Ministry of Defence commercially managed ship”.\n(3) After the definition of “Ministry of Defence yacht” there shall be inserted the following definition—\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;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1991, amended by S.I. 1992/ ."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1293/article/3",
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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."
}