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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-small-workboats-and-pilot-boats-regulations-2023/introduction/enacted",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2023/1216",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Small Workboats and Pilot Boats) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-small-workboats-and-pilot-boats-regulations-2023/enacted",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Merchant Shipping\nMade\n20th November 2023 Laid before Parliament\n22nd November 2023 Coming into force\n13th December 2023 The Secretary of State, after consulting the persons referred to in section 86 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(“the 1995 Act”), and in the exercise of the powers conferred by sections 47, 48, 77, 85(1)(a) and (b), (3)(a) to (c), (e), (k), (l), (n) to (q), (5) to (7), 86(1)(a) to (d) and 302(1) of that Act and with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "enacted",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21. Subsections (4A) and (4B) of section 47 were inserted by section 10 of the Marine Navigation Act 2013 (c. 23). Section 85 was amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), sections 8 and 29(2) and Schedule 7, Part 1 and by the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 (c. 8). There are other amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1216/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:38:38.808529+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."
}