{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-signals-of-distress-rules-1992/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-signals-of-distress-rules-1992/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1582",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Signals of Distress) Rules 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-signals-of-distress-rules-1992",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 30th June 1992\nLaid before Parliament 8th July 1992\nComing into force 29th July 1992\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 21(2) and 36(1) of the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949 and now vested in him, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Rules:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1949 c. 43; section 21(2) was amended by the Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1983 (S.I. 1983/708), Schedule 2, Part II. In section 36(1), see the definition of “the Minister” (mentioned in section 21(2))."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See S.I. 1965/145, 1970/1537, 1981/238."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1582/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."
}