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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-boarding-cards-application-to-non-uk-ships-regulations-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/641",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Boarding Cards) (Application to non-UK Ships) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-boarding-cards-application-to-non-uk-ships-regulations-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations apply the requirements of the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Boarding Cards) Regulations 1988 to non-United Kingdom passenger ships operating as passenger ships of Classes II and II(A) in respect of voyages departing from United Kingdom ports. (Those Regulations require the operation of a boarding card system for all voyages on which passengers are carried.)\nThere is an exemption for non-United Kingdom ships which come into a port in the United Kingdom only because of stress of weather or for similar reasons.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/641/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:08:27.144420+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."
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