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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-submersible-craft-construction-and-survey-regulations-1981/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-submersible-craft-construction-and-survey-regulations-1981/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/1098",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Submersible Craft Construction and Survey) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-submersible-craft-construction-and-survey-regulations-1981",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nMade 30th July 1981\nLaid before Parliament 10th August 1981\nComing into Operation 1st October 1981\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of his powers under sections 16 and 17 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Merchant Shipping Act 1974 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 3(2)(a) of Schedule 5 was amended by section 43(3) of, and paragraph 20 of Part VI of Schedule 6 to, the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (c. 39)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1098/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."
}