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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-reception-facilities-for-garbage-regulations-1988/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2293",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Reception Facilities for Garbage) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-reception-facilities-for-garbage-regulations-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MARINE POLLUTION\nMade 23rd December 1988\nComing into force 31st December 1988\nThe Secretary of State for Transport in exercise of the powers conferred on him by article 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Garbage) Order 1988 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": "S.I. 1988/2252."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2293/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."
}