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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-etc-act-1993-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-order-1993/article-7",
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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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-etc-act-1993-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-order-1993",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Savings for pre-commencement instruments",
  "text": "(1) Notwithstanding—\n(a) the coming into force of paragraphs 4, 5 and 79 of Schedule 4 to the 1993 Act (provisions providing generalised powers to make subordinate legislation); and\n(b) the consequential repeal by Schedule 5 to the 1993 Act of existing empowering provisions;\nan instrument made under an empowering provision specified in column 3 of Schedule 3 to this Order and in force immediately before the date of such coming into force shall continue in force until superseded by an instrument made under the paragraph of Schedule 4 to the 1993 Act specified in column 1 in relation to that empowering provision.\n(2) Notwithstanding paragraph 13(2) of Schedule 4 to the 1993 Act (repeal of section 418, 419 and 421 of the 1894 Act), any instrument in force immediately before that repeal made under the said section 418 or subsection (2) of the said section 421(2) shall continue in force until superseded by regulations under section 21 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979, and section 419 shall continue in force for the purposes of those instruments.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1979 c. 39."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3137/article/7",
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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."
}