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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-safety-and-load-line-conventions-act-1932/schedule-FIRST/part-III/crossheading-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-safety-and-load-line-conventions-act-1932/schedule-FIRST/part-III/crossheading-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/22-23/9",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping (Safety And Load Line Conventions) Act 1932",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-safety-and-load-line-conventions-act-1932",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST/part/III/crossheading/4",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "4.",
  "text": "Means of Clinging to Boats\nThe International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea recommends that the Contracting Governments should consider the practicability of requiring lifeboats carried on ships registered in their ports to be fitted with means to enable persons to cling to the boats if upturned in the water, without increasing the risks incident to the lowering of the boats.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/22-23/9/schedule/FIRST/part/III/crossheading/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:38:08.703628+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."
}