{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-official-log-books-regulations-1981/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-official-log-books-regulations-1981/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/569",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Official Log Books) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-official-log-books-regulations-1981",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMade 8th April 1981\nLaid before Parliament 10th April 1981\nComing into Operation\n(a) for the purposes of paragraphs 8 and 9 of Part I of the Schedule 1st September 1981\n(b) for all other purposes 1st May 1981\nThe Secretary of State, after consulting with the organisations referred to in section 99(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970, in exercise of powers conferred by section 68 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": "Section 68(5) was amended by the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (c. 39), section 43(1) and Schedule 6, Part VI, paragraph 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See S.I. 1970/1537."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/569/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."
}