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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radio-fishing-vessels-amendment-rules-1994/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radio-fishing-vessels-amendment-rules-1994/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1104",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Radio) (Fishing Vessels) (Amendment) Rules 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radio-fishing-vessels-amendment-rules-1994",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 19th April 1994\nLaid before Parliament 20th April 1994\nComing into force 30th April 1994\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, after consulting with the organisations referred to in section 85(3) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970, in exercise of powers conferred by section 3 of the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949 and now vested in him and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Rules:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1970 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1949 c. 43; section 3 was substituted by the Merchant Shipping Act 1970, section 85(1) and Schedule 1, and amended by the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (c. 39) Schedule 6 Part VII, and S.I. 1980/539."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See S.I. 1970/1537."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1104/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."
}