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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-pilot-transfer-arrangements-regulations-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/17",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Pilot Transfer Arrangements) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-pilot-transfer-arrangements-regulations-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 9th January 1999\nLaid before Parliament 20th January 1999\nComing into force 10th February 1999\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 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": null,
  "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 Act 1997 (c. 28), section 8."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/17/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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