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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-horticulture-act-1964/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1964/28",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture and Horticulture Act 1964",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-horticulture-act-1964",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision for and in connection with the maintenance of minimum price levels for imports affecting the market for agricultural or horticultural produce of descriptions produced in the United Kingdom; to make further provision for assisting by the payment of grants the production and marketing of horticultural produce; to impose requirements as to the grading of horticultural produce when dealt in bulk and as to the mode of packing and transporting such produce; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.\n[15th April 1964][15th April 1964]",
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  "status": null,
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  "annotations": [
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act saved by Trade Descriptions Act 1968 (c. 29), s. 2 (4)"
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
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    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act: transfer of certain functions (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act: transfer of functions, property, rights and liabilities (27.12.1999) by S.I. 1999/3141, arts. 2(1)(5), 4, Sch. (with arts. 3, 5)"
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act excluded (E.) (1.7.2009) by Marketing of Fresh Horticultural Produce Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1361), regs. 1(1), 22(a)"
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    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act excluded (S.) (1.7.2009) by Marketing of Horticultural Produce (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/225), regs. 1(1), 24(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act excluded (W.) (16.7.2009) by Marketing of Fresh Horticultural Produce (Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1551), regs. 1, 22(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Act excluded (N.I.) (25.6.2010) by The Marketing of Fresh Horticulture Produce Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/198), regs. 1, 24(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "Act excluded (S.) (10.10.2011) by The Bananas (Enforcement of Quality Standards) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/325), regs. 1(1), 21(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "Act excluded (E.W.) (11.5.2012) by The Quality Standards for Green Bananas (England and Wales) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/947), regs. 1(b), 22(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C11",
      "text": "Act excluded (S.) (1.2.2013) by The Marketing of Bananas (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/349), regs. 1(1), 21(a)"
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