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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2002/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1650",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2002",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I. 1998/2514 and S.I. 1998/2515 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Statutory Instruments.\nMERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 25th June 2002\nLaid before Parliament 1st July 2002\nComing into force 1st August 2002\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, after consulting the persons referred to in 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 (5) to (7) and 86(1) of that Act hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21; sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), section 8."
    }
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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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