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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-by-air-and-road-act-1979-commencement-no-1-order-1980/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1980/1966",
  "legislation_title": "The Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-by-air-and-road-act-1979-commencement-no-1-order-1980",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order brings into force on 28th December 1980 the provisions of the Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 specified in the Schedule to the Order as a consequence of the entry into force on that date of a Protocol of the 5th July 1978 to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) (Cmnd. 7480). The Protocol introduces a new unit of account for the purposes of the Convention.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/1966/note",
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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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