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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-safety-health-and-welfare-provisions-act-1956/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/49",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture (Safety, Health and Welfare Provisions) Act 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-safety-health-and-welfare-provisions-act-1956",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to provide for securing the safety, health and welfare of persons employed in agriculture and certain other occupations and the avoidance of accidents to children arising out of the use, in connection with agriculture, of vehicles, machinery or implements; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.\n[5th July 1956]",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act extended by S.I. 1983/1919, regs. 3, 4"
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    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act amended by S.I. 1988/1380, reg. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act: saved by virtue of Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (c. 37, SIF 43:3), s. 53, Sch. 1 and Tay Road Bridge Order Confirmation Act 1991 (c. iv), Sch. Pt. VII, s. 62"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act saved by virtue of Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (c. 37, SIF 43:3), s. 53, Sch. 1 and Highland Regional Council (Harbours) Order Confirmation Act 1991 ( c. xii), s. 61(1)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at Royal Assent"
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/49/introduction",
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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."
}