{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radio-installations-regulations-1998/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radio-installations-regulations-1998/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2070",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Radio Installations) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radio-installations-regulations-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMade 20th August 1998\nLaid before Parliament 28th August 1998\nComing into force 28th September 1998\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 the powers conferred by sections 85(1)(a) and (b), (3) (5) to (7) and 86(1) of that Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations excluded (16.12.1998) by The Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2771), regs. 1(1), 4, 5, Sch. 1, Sch. 2 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Regulations excluded in part (23.10.2000) by The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2687), regs. 1, 5(1)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Regulations excluded (6.4.2016) by S.I. 1998/2771, Sch. 1 Table (as substituted by The Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/353), regs. 1(1), 3(1), Sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Regulations excluded (12.12.2025) by The Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1195), reg. 1(1), Sch. 3 (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), section 8."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2070/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:20:32.773936+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."
}