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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1976/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/55",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1976",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to dissolve the Sugar Board; to provide for increasing the amount which may be advanced under section 2 of the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation Act 1956; to amend the provisions of Part I of the Agriculture Act 1967 relating to the Meat and Livestock Commission and their committees; to provide for the making of grants in connection with proficiency tests in crafts related to agriculture; to authorise measures to restrict the growing of male hop plants; to make further provision for obtaining agricultural statistics; to provide for the adaptation of certain enactments to metric units; to provide for regulating the exportation of animals in the interests of their welfare; to make further provision for preventing the transmission of disease from wild life to animals and poultry; to amend the law relating to agricultural holdings; to amend section 29(4) of the Agriculture Act 1970; and for purposes connected with those matters\n[15th November 1976]",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    },
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act: transfer of functions (1.7.1999) by S.I 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act partly in force at Royal Assent, see s. 27(2)(3)(4); Act wholly in force at 7.4.1978"
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  "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."
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