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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-ship-construction-amendment-regulations-1987/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1886",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction) (Amendment) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-ship-construction-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 3rd November 1987\nLaid before Parliament 6th November 1987\nComing into force 1st January 1988\nThe Secretary of State, 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 sections 21(1)(a) and (b) and (3) and 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."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1886/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."
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