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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-technical-requirements-for-inland-waterway-vessels-amendment-regulations-2020/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2020/58",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Technical Requirements for Inland Waterway Vessels) (Amendment) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-technical-requirements-for-inland-waterway-vessels-amendment-regulations-2020",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Merchant Shipping\nMade 23rd January 2020\nLaid before Parliament 29th January 2020\nComing into force 25th February 2020\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 85(1), (3) and (5) to (7) and 86(1) and (2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.\nThe Secretary of State has consulted the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995.\nThe Secretary of State is a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the safety of ships and the health and safety of persons on them.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c.21. Section 85 was amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c.28), section 8 and Schedule 7 Part I. Sections 85 and 86 apply to hovercraft by virtue of the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1350)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and by section 3 of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/595."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/58/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."
}