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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-ships-safety-code-for-uk-categorised-waters-regulations-2010/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/680",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships) (Safety Code for UK Categorised Waters) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-ships-safety-code-for-uk-categorised-waters-regulations-2010",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Merchant Shipping\nSafety\nMade 8th March 2010\nLaid before Parliament 12th March 2010\nComing into force 6th April 2010\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 85(1)(a) and (b), (3) and (5) to (7) and section 86(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995.\nIn accordance with section 86(4) of that Act the Secretary of State has consulted the persons referred to in that section.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c.21. Sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c.28), sections 8 and 29(2) and Schedule 7 Part 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/680/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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