{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mersey-channel-collision-rules-amendment-order-1990/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mersey-channel-collision-rules-amendment-order-1990/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/253",
  "legislation_title": "The Mersey Channel (Collision Rules) (Amendment) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mersey-channel-collision-rules-amendment-order-1990",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the Schedule to the Mersey Channel (Collision Rules) Order 1978 Rule 1 is replaced by the following:\n“1 In these Rules, except where the context otherwise requires–\n“Collision Regulations” means the Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1989 made under section 21 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 and, in relation to seaplanes, the Collision Regulations (Seaplanes) Order 1989 made under section 418(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 as extended by section 97(1) of the Civil Aviation Act 1982\nand the several words and expressions to which meanings are assigned by the Collision Regulations shall have the same meanings as in those Regulations.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1978/1914, amended by S.I. 1983/770."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1798."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1979 c. 39; section 21 was amended by section 49(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48) and section 11 of the Safety at Sea Act 1986 (c. 23)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/2005, amended by S.I. 1990/251."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1982 c. 16."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/253/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:27:57.539549+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."
}