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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-seamens-wages-and-accounts-amendment-regulations-1978/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1978/1757",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Wages and Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-seamens-wages-and-accounts-amendment-regulations-1978",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMASTERS AND SEAMEN\nMade 4th December 1978\nLaid before Parliament 5th December 1978\nComing into Operation 1st January 1979\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 9 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": "S.I. 1970/1537."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/1757/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:25:47.061559+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."
}