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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ships-names-amendment-regulations-1988/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2001",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Ships' Names) (Amendment) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ships-names-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMade 4th November 1988\nComing into force 1st December 1988\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, in conjunction with the Commissioners of Customs & Excise, in exercise of powers conferred by section 50 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1906 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": "1906 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See S.I. 1970/1537."
    }
  ],
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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."
}