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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2001/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1638",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I. 1998/2070, S.I. 1998/2514, S.I. 1998/2515, S.I. 1999/992, S.I. 1999/1957 and S.I. 1999/2121 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Statutory Instruments.\nMARINE POLLUTION\nMERCHANT SHIPPING\nMade 30th April 2001\nLaid before Parliament 3rd May 2001\nComing into force 11th June 2001\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, after such consultation as is required by section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 85(1)(a) and (b), (3) and (7) and 86(1) of that Act hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), section 8."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1638/introduction",
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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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