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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-protection-act-1987/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-protection-act-1987/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/43",
  "legislation_title": "Consumer Protection Act 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-protection-act-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision with respect to the liability of persons for damage caused by defective products; to consolidate with amendments the Consumer Safety Act 1978 and the Consumer Safety (Amendment) Act 1986; to make provision with respect to the giving of price indications; to amend Part I of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and sections 31 and 80 of the Explosives Act 1875; to repeal the Trade Descriptions Act 1972 and the Fabrics (Misdescription) Act 1913; and for connected purposes.\n[15th May 1987]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act excluded (30.10.2005) by The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2475), reg. 44"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "By the Toys (Safety) Regulations 1989, S.I. 1989/1275, reg. 15(1) it is provided that those Regulations shall be treated for all purposes as if they were safety regulations within the meaning of this Act"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act extended (6.4.1992) by S.I. 1992/711, reg. 30Act extended (24.2.1995) by S.I. 1995/204, reg. 16(1)Act applied (1.1.1995) by S.I. 1994/3142, reg. 18(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act continued (1.10.2015) by The Consumer Rights Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional Provisions, Savings and Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1630), art. 8(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act applied in part (with modifications) (20.5.2016) by The Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Products Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/829), reg. 18 (with regs. 14(5), 20)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent see s.50; Act fully in force 1.3.1989 (subject to reservations in S.I. 1988/2076)."
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "Act extends to Northern Ireland with specified exceptions, see s. 49"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/43/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."
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