{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1993/schedule-2/paragraph-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1993/schedule-2/paragraph-40.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/37",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1993",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/40",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any provision which imposes a prohibition (whether absolute or qualified) on the transfer of any property or rights of a milk marketing board, or of a subsidiary of such a board, shall, unless the prohibition is imposed for public purposes, be treated as not applying in the case of a transfer under an approved scheme otherwise than under section 11 above.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) above shall not apply in the case of a provision which is formulated specifically with reference to the possibility of the undertaking of a milk marketing board being transferred otherwise than to a board constituted by a scheme under Part I of the Agricultural Marketing Act 1958.\n(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, any provision which has the effect of penalising a transfer shall be treated as prohibiting it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1958 c. 47."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/37/schedule/2/paragraph/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:52.850394+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."
}