{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-safety-of-navigation-regulations-2020/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-safety-of-navigation-regulations-2020/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/673",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Safety of Navigation) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-safety-of-navigation-regulations-2020",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Merchant Shipping\nMade at 11.19 a.m. on 9th July 2020\nLaid before Parliament at 3.00 p.m. on 9th July 2020\nComing into force 31st July 2020\nThe Secretary of State, after consulting the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, and in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 77(2) and (5), 85(1), (3)(a), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (k), (l), (n), (o), (p) and (q), and (5) to (7), 86(1)(a), (b), (c) and (d), 302(1) and 306A of that Act, and with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations excluded in part (13.12.2023) by The Merchant Shipping (Small Workboats and Pilot Boats) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1216), regs. 1(1), 5, Sch. 1 (with regs. 4, 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Regulations excluded (12.12.2025) by The Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1195), reg. 1(1), Sch. 3, Sch. 4 (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21. Sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), sections 8 and 29(2) and Schedule 7. Section 85 was amended by the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 (c. 8), section 2(3). Section 306A was inserted by the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), section 106. There are other amendments but none is relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/673/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:28:44.004070+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."
}