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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-submersible-craft-operations-amendment-regulations-1987/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1603",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Submersible Craft Operations) (Amendment) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-submersible-craft-operations-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 10th September 1987\nLaid before Parliament 21st September 1987\nComing into force 12th October 1987\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of his powers under section 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": "1974 c. 43."
    }
  ],
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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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