{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-reporting-requirements-for-ships-carrying-dangerous-or-polluting-goods-regulations-1994/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-reporting-requirements-for-ships-carrying-dangerous-or-polluting-goods-regulations-1994/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3245",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Reporting Requirements for Ships Carrying Dangerous or Polluting Goods) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-reporting-requirements-for-ships-carrying-dangerous-or-polluting-goods-regulations-1994",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MARINE POLLUTION\nMERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 14th December 1994\nLaid before Parliament 21st December 1994\nComing into force 11th January 1995\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by:\n(a) article 3 of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Order 1987;\n(b) article 3 of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Order 1990; and\n(c) sections 21(1)(a) and (b) and (3) to (6) and 22(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979, after consulting the persons referred to in section 22(2) of that Act;\nand 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.1987/470, amended by S.I.1990/2595; the parliamentary procedure for regulations made under article 3 (being regulations made by virtue of section 20(4)(e) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (c. 39)) was amended by section 20(4B) of that Act inserted by the Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Pollution) Act 1994 (c. 28), section 3(4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I.1990/2595; the parliamentary procedure for regulations made under article 3 (being regulations made by virtue of section 20(4)(e) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979) was amended by section 20(4B) of that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1979 c. 39: section 21(6) was amended by section 49(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48); sections 21 and 22 were applied to hovercraft by the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1350)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3245/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:20:01.347318+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."
}