{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1957/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1957/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/57",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture Act 1957",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1957",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make further provision for guaranteed prices and assured markets for producers of agricultural produce in the United Kingdom; to authorise the payment of grants in respect of long-term improvements of agricultural land within the United Kingdom and in respect of the costs of certain transactions concerning such land; to make fresh provision for the development of the pig industry in Great Britain (including the production, processing, manufacture and distribution of pig products); to authorise payments into the Exchequer of Northern Ireland on account of expenses incurred for the benefit of producers of agricultural produce in Northern Ireland; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.\n[31st July 1957]",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (S.) (16.6.2025) by Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 11), s. 38(2), sch. 2 Pt. 1; S.S.I. 2025/167, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act amended (27.7.1993) by 1993 c. 37, s.54(1)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act amended (E.W.S.) (4.8.1993) by 1993 c. 37, ss.55, 65(3); S.I. 1993/2038, art.2Act (except s. 32): transfer of functions (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1Act transfer of functions (27.12.1999) by S.I. 1999/3141 arts. 2(1)(5), 3, Sch.Act transfer of functions (21.11.2002) by S.I. 2002/2843, art. 2(2) (with art. 10)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/57/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:13:33.448642+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."
}