{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1970/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1970/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/40",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture Act 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1970",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision with respect to agriculture and related matters and with respect to flood warning systems; and to amend the Diseases of Animals Act 1950.\n[29th May 1970]",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act extended (1.11.1991) by S.I. 1991/2197, reg.11 (with reg. 1(2)(3))."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Certain provisions in Act applied (N.I.) (18.5.1992) by S.R. 1992/187, reg.11 (with reg. 1(2))."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Certain provisions in Act applied (N.I.) (27.7.1992) by S.R. 1992/270, reg.23 (with reg. 22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act (except s. 53): Functions transferred (W.) (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act modified (W.) (11.10.2010) by The Feed (Sampling and Analysis and Specified Undesirable Substances) (Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2287), reg. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act applied (W.) (12.5.2016) by The Animal Feed (Hygiene, Sampling etc. and Enforcement) (Wales) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/387), reg. 12(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act partly in force at Royal Assent; Act wholly in force at 1.1.1974"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "Pt. III extends to England and Wales only see s. 65; Pt. VI extends to Scotland only see s. 98"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:00.537576+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."
}