{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1970/section-74",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1970/section-74.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/40",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture Act 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1970",
  "path": "section/74",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "74",
  "heading": "Limits of variation.",
  "text": "(1) No action shall lie on any warranty arising under the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act for any mis-statement as to the nature, substance or quality of any material if the mis-statement does not exceed any limits of variation prescribed in relation thereto for the purposes of this section; but if the mis-statement exceeds any such limits the purchaser’s rights under the warranty shall not be affected by the limits.\n(2) Particulars with respect to any material which are contained in a statutory statement or in any document, or which are marked on, or denoted by a mark on, the material, shall not for the purposes of this Part of this Act be treated as false by reason of any mis-statement therein as to the nature, substance or quality of the material if the mis-statement does not exceed the said limits of variation.\n(3) Nothing in subsection (2) shall apply to anyone to whom Article 11.5 and Annex IV (permitted tolerances) of Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 applies.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 74(3) added (E.) (23.11.2010) by The Animal Feed (England) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2503), regs. 1, 14(8); and s. 74(3) added (W.) (23.11.2010) by The Animal Feed (Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2652), regs. 1, 14(8); and s. 74(3) added (N.I.) (23.11.2010) by The Animal Feed Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/355), regs. 1, 14(8); and s. 74(3) inserted (S.) (23.11.2010) by The Animal Feed (Scotland) Regulations 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/373), regs. 1, 14(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 74(1) transfer of functions (15.2.2006) by Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/304), art. 1(1), Sch. (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 74(2) modified (E.) (29.10.2000) S.I. 2000/2481, reg. 7(1)s. 74(2) modified (W.) (1.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/343, reg. 7(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 74(2) amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2001/343 reg. 7(1) (W.) (1.5.2003) by The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/989), regs. 1(1), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 74(2) amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2001/343 reg. 7(1) (W.) (1.8.2003) by The Feeding Stuffs, the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1850), regs. 1(2), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 74(2) amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2001/343 reg. 7(1) (W.) (3.12.2003) by Feeding Stuffs, the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) (No.2) Regulatons 2003 (S.I. 2003/3119), regs. 1(2), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "S. 74(2) amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2000/2481 reg. 7(1) (E.) (8.12.2003) by Feeding Stuffs, the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (England) (No.2) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2912), regs. 1, 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "S. 74(2) amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2000/2481 reg. 7(1) (E.) (1.6.2004) by Feeding Stuffs, the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/1301), regs. 1, 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "S. 74(2) amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2001/343 reg. 7(1) (W.) (9.7.2004) by The Feeding Stuffs, the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/1749), regs. 1, 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "S. 74(2) amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2001/343 reg. 7(1) (W.) (24.11.2004) by The Feeding Stuffs, the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/3091), regs. 1, 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "S. 74(2) modified (S.) (1.1.2006) by The Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/605), regs. 1(1), 10(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C11",
      "text": "S. 74(2) modified (N.I.) (1.1.2006) by The Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/545), regs. 1, 10(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C12",
      "text": "S. 74(2) modified (E.) (1.1.2006) by The Feeding Stuffs (England) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3281), regs. 1, 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C13",
      "text": "S. 74(2) modified (W.) (25.1.2006) by The Feeding Stuffs (Wales) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/116), regs. 1, 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 74: for previous exercises of this power see Index to Government Orders"
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P2",
      "text": "S. 74(1): s. 74A (with ss. 66(1), 68(1)(1A)(3), 69(1)(3)(6)(7), 70(1), 73(3), 74(1) and 84) power exercised by S.I. 1991/1475"
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P3",
      "text": "S. 74(1): s. 84 (with ss. 66(1), 68(1)(2)(3), 69(1)(3)(6)(7), 70(1), 74(1), 74A (1)(2)(4)) power exercised by S.I.1991/2197"
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P4",
      "text": "S. 74(1): S. 74A (with ss. 66(1), 68(1)(1A) and (3), 69(1), (3), (6) and (7), 70(1), 74(1), 74A and 84) power exercised by S.I.1991/2840"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/40/section/74",
    "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."
}