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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-seamens-allotments-regulations-1972/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1972/1698",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Allotments) Regulations 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-seamens-allotments-regulations-1972",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMASTERS AND SEAMEN\nMade 9th November 1972\nLaid before Parliament 17th November 1972\nComing into Operation 1st January 1973\nThe Secretary of State, after consulting with the organisations referred to in section 99(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970, in exercise of powers conferred by section 13 of that Act and now vested in him, 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": "See the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Order 1970 (S.I. 1970/1537 (1970 III, p. 5293))."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/1698/introduction",
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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."
}