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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-united-kingdom-wreck-convention-area-order-2015/note",
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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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order describes the United Kingdom’s Wreck Removal Convention Area. The provisions of Part 9A (Wreck Removal Convention) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, inserted by the Wreck Removal Convention Act 2011, apply in respect of wrecks within that area.\nThe area, which conforms to Articles 1.1 and 3.3 of the Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks 2007, comprises the United Kingdom, its territorial waters and its exclusive economic zone.\nThe text of that Convention is set out in Schedule 11ZA to the Merchant Shipping Act 1995.\nAn Impact Assessment has not been prepared for this instrument specifically. A full impact assessment of the effect of implementation of the Wreck Removal Convention Act 2011 will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is published with the Explanatory Memorandum on www.legislation. gov.uk.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/172/note",
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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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