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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-seamens-documents-amendment-regulations-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3281",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Documents) (Amendment) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-seamens-documents-amendment-regulations-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMASTERS AND SEAMEN\nMade 7th December 1999\nLaid before Parliament 10th December 1999\nComing into force 1st January 2000\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, after consulting with the organisations referred to in section 306(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 80(1), (2) and (3) of the said Act of 1995, 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": "1995 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 80 was amended by section 18 of the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3281/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."
}