{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-sterling-equivalentsmerchant-shipping-act-1974-order-1989/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-sterling-equivalentsmerchant-shipping-act-1974-order-1989/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1882",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Sterling Equivalents)(Merchant Shipping Act 1974) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-sterling-equivalentsmerchant-shipping-act-1974-order-1989",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and revocation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Sterling Equivalents) (Merchant Shipping Act 1974) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 10th November 1989.\n(2) The Merchant Shipping (Sterling Equivalents)(Various Enactments) Order 1986 and the Merchant Shipping (Sterling Equivalents)(Various Enactments) (Amendment) Order 1986 are hereby revoked.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1777, amended by S.I. 1986/2038 and 1987/855."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/2038."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1882/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:36:09.083148+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."
}