{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-pilot-boats-regulations-1991/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-pilot-boats-regulations-1991/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/65",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Pilot Boats) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-pilot-boats-regulations-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 14th January 1991\nLaid before Parliament 28th January 1991\nComing into force 2nd April 1991\nThe Secretary of State, after consulting with the persons referred to in section 22(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 in exercise, of powers conferred on him by subsections (1)(a), (3), (4), (5) and (6) of section 21 and by section 22(1) of that Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations with the approval, so far as regulation 1(4) is concerned, of the Treasury.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1979 c. 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 21(6) was amended by section 49(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/65/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."
}