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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ro-ro-passenger-ship-survivability-regulations-1994/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/422",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Ro-Ro Passenger Ship Survivability) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ro-ro-passenger-ship-survivability-regulations-1994",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 25th February 1994\nLaid before Parliament 4th March 1994\nComing into force 25th March 1994\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, after consulting the persons referred to in section 22(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 21(1)(a) and (b) and (3) to (6) and 22(1) of that Act 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": "1979 c. 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Subsection (6) of section 21 was amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48), section 49(3)(a) and (4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/422/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."
}