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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-etc-act-1993-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-order-1993/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3137",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Registration, etc.) Act 1993 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1993",
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  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Construction of pre-commencement references to 1894 Act",
  "text": "Any reference, however worded, in any mortgage or document by which immediately before 21st March 1994 a ship is made security for the repayment of a loan or discharge of other obligation, to registration of the ship under Part I or IV of the 1894 Act or under the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 shall be construed as a reference to registration of the ship under the 1993 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 12."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3137/article/6",
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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."
}