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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-stability-of-passenger-ships-regulations-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1693",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Stability of Passenger Ships) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-stability-of-passenger-ships-regulations-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction) Regulations 1980 and the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction and Survey) Regulations 1984.\nThese amendments apply to United Kingdom passenger ships. They require ro/ro passenger ships to be inclined at regular intervals to determine the lightship condition particulars, they provide for the confirmation of the sufficiency of the stability if necessary as a result of any inclining and for the amendment of the stability information provided to the ship.\nThe Regulations provide for the cancellation or withdrawal of the ship’s passenger certificate if the ship is either not inclined as required or if the results of the inclining show that the ship’s stability information is no longer valid.\nThe information provided to the master as to the required metacentric height or maximum allowable vertical centre of gravity of the ship must cover a range of draughts and a specified number of trims.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1693/note",
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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."
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