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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-sterling-equivalentsmerchant-shipping-act-1974-order-1989/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-sterling-equivalentsmerchant-shipping-act-1974-order-1989/introduction.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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MARINE POLLUTION\nMade 9th October 1989\nComing into force 10th November 1989\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(7) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1974, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 43."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1882/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."
}