{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-regulations-1995/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-regulations-1995/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1210",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Survey and Certification) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-regulations-1995",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 28th April 1995\nLaid before Parliament 10th May 1995\nComing into force 1st June 1995\nWhereas so far as these Regulations are made under paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 21 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 they are made only for the purpose of applying to certain other ships provisions of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea Convention, 1974, as amended, and modified by its Protocol of 1978, implemented under paragraph (b) of that subsection;\nNow, therefore the Secretary of State for Transport, after consulting the persons referred to in section 22(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 21(1)(a), (b) and (c), (3) to (6) and 22(1) and (3) of that Act 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": "1979 c. 39; section 21(1) has been amended by section 11 of the Safety at Sea Act 1986 and by paragraph 6(4) of Schedule 4 to the Merchant Shipping (Registration, etc) Act 1993 (c. 22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The Convention, Protocol and amendments are set out in the 1992 consolidated edition of SOLAS published by the International Maritime Organisation."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 21(6) was amended by section 49(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1210/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."
}