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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1680",
  "legislation_title": "The Consumer Protection Act 1987 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-protection-act-1987-commencement-no-1-order-1987",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following provisions of the 1987 Act shall come into force on 1st March 1988–\n(a) Part I (product liability);\n(b) section 36 (amendments of Part I of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974);\n(c) sections 41(2) and (6) (civil proceedings), 45 (interpretation) and 46 (meaning of “supply”) in so far as they have effect for the purposes of or in relation to Part I;\n(d) section 48(1) (minor and consequential amendments) in so far as it relates to the paragraphs of Schedule 4 mentioned in paragraph (h) below.;\n(e) section 48(3) (repeals) in so far as it gives effect to the repeals in Schedule 5 mentioned in paragraph (i) below;\n(f) Schedule 1 (limitation of actions under Part I);\n(g) Schedule 3 (amendments of Part I of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974);\n(h) Schedule 4 (minor and consequential amendments) paragraphs 5, 8 and 12;\n(i) Schedule 5 (repeals) the repeals set out in Part II of the Schedule to this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 37."
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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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