{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2001/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2001/note.json",
  "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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations correct defects in a number of earlier instruments, and are being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those instruments.\nRegulation 2 amends the Merchant Shipping (Reporting Requirements for Ships Carrying Dangerous or Polluting Goods) Regulations 1995 to alter a reference to the statutory maximum for a fine on summary conviction to a reference to level 5 on the standard scale.\nRegulation 3 amends the Merchant Shipping (Fire Protection: Large Ships) Regulations 1998 to correct a mistaken cross-reference.\nRegulation 4 amends the Merchant Shipping (Radio Installations) Regulations 1998 to remove a superfluous definition, correct mistaken cross-references and insert a missing word.\nRegulation 5 amends the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes I, II and II(A)) Regulations 1998 to correct mistaken cross-references, an incorrect reference to another instrument and other drafting errors.\nRegulation 6 amends the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes III to VI(A)) Regulations 1998 to omit a superfluous paragraph and correct another drafting error.\nRegulation 7 amends a couple of mistaken cross-references in the Merchant Shipping (Fire Protection) (Amendment) Regulations 1999.\nRegulation 8 amends the Merchant Shipping (Marine Equipment) Regulations 1999 to omit a superfluous cross-reference.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1638/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:49:51.609094+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."
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