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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-amendment-regulations-1994/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/541",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-amendment-regulations-1994",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I. 1993/3138 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.\nMERCHANT SHIPPING\nREGISTRATION\nMade 4th March 1994\nLaid before Parliament 11th March 1994\nComing into force 21st March 1994\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 2, 3, and 7(5) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Merchant Shipping (Registration, etc.) Act 1993 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": "1993 c. 22."
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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."
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