{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-act-1986-government-shareholding-order-1987/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-act-1986-government-shareholding-order-1987/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2232",
  "legislation_title": "The Airports Act 1986 (Government Shareholding) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-act-1986-government-shareholding-order-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "CIVIL AVIATION\nMade 22nd December 1987\nLaid before Parliament 7th January 1988\nComing into force 28th January 1988\nWhereas BAA plc, being the successor company for the purposes of section 2 of the Airports Act 1986, has ceased to be wholly owned by the Crown, and whereas the Government shareholding in the company as defined in section 7 of that Act comprises shares in the company carrying 4.548 per cent of the voting rights exercisable at general meetings of the company;\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 7 of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See S.I. 1986/1229."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1986 c. 31."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2232/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."
}