{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ro-ro-passenger-ships-stability-regulations-2004/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ro-ro-passenger-ships-stability-regulations-2004/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2884",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Ro-Ro Passenger Ships) (Stability) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ro-ro-passenger-ships-stability-regulations-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 1st November 2004\nLaid before Parliament 5th November 2004\nComing into force 29th November 2004\nThe Secretary of State, for Transport, after consulting the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 85(1)(a) and (b), (3) and (5) to (7) and section 86(1) of that Act, and of all other powers enabling him is that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c28), section 8, and are 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/2004/2884/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:16:03.971839+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."
}