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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ministry-of-defence-ships-order-1989/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1991",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Ministry of Defence Ships) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ministry-of-defence-ships-order-1989",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order–\n“Ministry of Defence ship” means a Government ship in the service of the Ministry of Defence;\n“the 1911 Order” means an Order in Council made on 22nd March 1911 making regulations as to registration as British ships of vessels in the service of the Ministry of Defence;\n“the 1894 Act” means the Merchant Shipping Act 1894;\n“Secretary of State” means the Secretary of State for Defence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R.&O. 1911/338, amended by S.I. 1964/489, 1978/1533."
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "affecting": "uksi/1992/1294",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Ministry of Defence Yachts) Order 1992"
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      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Ministry of Defence Yachts) Order 1992"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/1293",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Ministry of Defence Commercially Managed Ships) Order 1992"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/1992/1293",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Ministry of Defence Commercially Managed Ships) Order 1992"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1991/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."
}