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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-and-control-of-pollution-hong-kong-order-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/664",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Prevention and Control of Pollution) (Hong Kong) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-and-control-of-pollution-hong-kong-order-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order extends to Hong Kong certain provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Order 1987. Its main purpose is to give the Governor of Hong Kong power to make regulations to enable effect to be given in Hong Kong to Annex II to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973 (Cmnd. 5748).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/664/note",
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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."
}