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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-protection-code-of-practice-for-traders-on-price-indications-approval-order-1988/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-protection-code-of-practice-for-traders-on-price-indications-approval-order-1988/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2078",
  "legislation_title": "The Consumer Protection (Code of Practice for Traders on Price Indications) Approval Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-protection-code-of-practice-for-traders-on-price-indications-approval-order-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "CONSUMER PROTECTION\nMade 29th November 1988\nLaid before Parliament 30th November 1988\nComing into force 1st March 1989\nWhereas the Secretary of State has, in accordance with sections 25(1) of the Consumer Protection Act 1987, consulted the Director General of Fair Trading and such other persons as the Secretary of State considered it appropriate to consult:\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 25 of that Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1987 c. 43."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2078/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:54:03.127352+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}