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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-musters-training-and-decision-support-systems-regulations-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2722",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Musters, Training and Decision Support Systems) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-musters-training-and-decision-support-systems-regulations-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 30th September 1999\nLaid before Parliament 8th October 1999\nComing into force 29th October 1999\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 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), (5) to (7) and 86(1) of that Act and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, 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."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2722/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:48:16.189469+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."
}