{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1970/section-87",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1970/section-87.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/40",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture Act 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1970",
  "path": "section/87",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "87",
  "heading": "Commencement of Part IV, savings and amendments.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) The appointment of any person under the said Act of 1926 as an inspector, agricultural analyst or deputy agricultural analyst shall continue to have effect as if made under the corresponding provision of this Part of this Act.\n(3) In section 2(4) of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 (which contains an exemption for descriptions applied to certain articles in pursuance of the said Act of 1926) for the words “any description applied in pursuance of the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act 1926 to an article included in the first column of Schedule 1 to that Act\" there shall be substituted the words “any statement made in respect of, or mark applied to, any material in pursuance of Part IV of the Agriculture Act 1970, any name or expression to which a meaning has been assigned under section 70 of that Act when applied to any material in the circumstances specified in that section\".\n(4) In section 90(3) of the Medicines Act 1968 (which contains an exemption for marks and statements made in pursuance of the said Act of 1926) for paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted the following—\n“(a) of any mark which is made on a container or package in pursuance of Part IV of the Agriculture Act 1970; or\n(b) of any statement which, in pursuance of that Part, is made in any leaflet supplied, or intended to be supplied, with any material.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 87(1) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Group 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1968 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1968 c. 67."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "1.1.1974 appointed under s. 87(1) by S.I. 1973/1520, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 30(5), 31(1)(2), 32(4)(a), 33(1), 34(3), 87(3)(4) and 106(6) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/40/section/87",
    "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."
}