{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-navigation-bridge-visibility-regulations-1998/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-navigation-bridge-visibility-regulations-1998/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1419",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Navigation Bridge Visibility) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-navigation-bridge-visibility-regulations-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 8th June 1998\nLaid before Parliament 10th June 1998\nComing into force 1st July 1998\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 by section 85(1)(a) and (b), (3), (6) and (7) and section 86(1) of the Act, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, 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; and are applied to hovercraft by S.I. 1989/1350."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1419/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."
}