{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-united-kingdom-wreck-convention-area-order-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/172",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (United Kingdom Wreck Convention Area) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-united-kingdom-wreck-convention-area-order-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Merchant Shipping\nMade 5th February 2015\nLaid before Parliament 13th February 2015\nComing into force 14th April 2015\nThe Secretary of State, in accordance with section 255R of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c.21. Section 255R was inserted by the Wreck Removal Convention Act 2011 (2011 c.8)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/172/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:48:31.067593+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}