{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-officer-nationality-regulations-1995/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-officer-nationality-regulations-1995/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1427",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Officer Nationality) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-officer-nationality-regulations-1995",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMASTERS AND SEAMEN\nMade 1st June 1995\nLaid before Parliament 13th June 1995\nComing into force 1st August 1995\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, after consulting with the organisations referred to in section 99(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970, in exercise of powers conferred by section 43 and 92 of that Act and now vested in him, 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": "1970 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 43 was amended by the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (c. 39), section 37(2) and (3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See S.I. 1970/1537."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1427/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:08:33.477480+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."
}