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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-ships-on-domestic-voyages-regulations-2000/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-ships-on-domestic-voyages-regulations-2000/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2687",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-ships-on-domestic-voyages-regulations-2000",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 29th September 2000\nLaid before Parliament 2nd October 2000\nComing into force 23rd October 2000\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, after consulting the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 85(1)(a) and (b), (3) and (5) to (7) and section 86(1) of that Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), section 8, and are applied to hovercraft by the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1350)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2687/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:13:03.462690+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."
}