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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-pilot-ladders-and-hoists-regulations-1987/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-pilot-ladders-and-hoists-regulations-1987/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1961",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Pilot Ladders and Hoists) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-pilot-ladders-and-hoists-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMade 18th November 1987\nLaid before Parliament 27th November 1987\nComing into force 1st January 1988\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, after consultation with the persons referred to in section 22(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by subsections (1)(a) and (b) and (3) to (6) of section 21 and section 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; section 21 was amended by the Safety at Sea Act 1986 (c. 23), section 11, and section 21(6) was amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48), section 49(3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1961/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."
}