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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ro-ro-passenger-ship-survivability-regulations-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/647",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Ro-Ro Passenger Ship Survivability) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ro-ro-passenger-ship-survivability-regulations-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 6th March 1997\nComing into force 1st April 1997\nWhereas a draft of the following Regulations has been laid before Parliament and has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament in accordance with section 86(5) and (6) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 :\nNow therefore the Secretary of State, after consulting the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the said Act of 1995, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 85(1)(a) and (b), (3) and (5) to (7) and 86(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": "1995 c. 21."
    }
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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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