{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-navigational-equipment-regulations-1993/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-navigational-equipment-regulations-1993/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/69",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Navigational Equipment) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-navigational-equipment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 18th January 1993\nLaid before Parliament 25th January 1993\nComing into force 15th February 1993\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, after consulting with the persons referred to in section 22(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 21(1)(a) and (b), (3), (4), (5) and (6), and section 22(1) of that 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": "1979 c. 39; section 21(6)(b), (ba) and (bb) were inserted by the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/69/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."
}