{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-port-state-control-amendment-regulations-2003/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-port-state-control-amendment-regulations-2003/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1636",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-port-state-control-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMade 24th June 2003\nLaid before Parliament 26th June 2003\nComing into force 22nd July 2003\nThe Secretary of State, after consulting the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 85(1)(a) and (b), (3) and (5) to (7) and section 86(1) of that Act, and being a Minister designated for the purpose of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the safety of ships and the health and safety of persons on them, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the said section 2(2), 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 Security Act 1997 (c. 28), section 8, and are applied to hovercraft by the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1350)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/595."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; by virtue of the amendment of section 1(2) of the European Communities Act by section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51) regulations may be made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act to implement obligations of the United Kingdom created or arising by or under the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 (Cmnd. 2073) as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993 (Cmnd. 2183)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1636/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:21:09.833640+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."
}