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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-and-control-of-pollution-order-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/470",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-and-control-of-pollution-order-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order enables effect to be given to Annex II and Protocol I to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973 as amended by the Protocol thereto of 1978 and by the amendments thereto adopted by the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization on 5th December 1985.\nThe Order empowers the Secretary of State to make regulations for the purpose of giving effect to Annex II (which relates to pollution by noxious liquid substances) and the revised Protocol I (which relates to reporting of pollution incidents). In particular, the regulations may include provisions with respect to the carrying out of surveys, the issue of certificates, the application of the regulations to the Crown, the extension of the Order or regulations to dependent territories, the imposition of penalties and the detention of ships.\nRegulation 31 of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Oil Pollution) Regulations 1983 will no longer be required once the regulations under this Order are in force and is accordingly revoked.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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