{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-safety-convention-singapore-no-2-order-1953/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1953/1219",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping Safety Convention (Singapore) No. 2 Order 1953",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-safety-convention-singapore-no-2-order-1953",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Merchant Shipping\nMade 1st August 1953\nLaid before Parliament 4th August 1953\nComing into Operation 5th August 1953\nAt the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 1st day of August, 1953\nPresent,\nThe Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council\nWhereas it is expedient that certain provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act, 1949 (hereinafter called “the Act”), shall apply to British ships registered in the Colony of Singapore:\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers vested in Her by section thirty-six of the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932, as amended by section thirty of the Act, and all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1953/1219/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T01:47:19.359107+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."
}