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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-trading-act-1973/section-28",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/41",
  "legislation_title": "Fair Trading Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-trading-act-1973",
  "path": "section/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Power to make test purchases.",
  "text": "A local weights and measures authority may make, or may authorise any of their officers to make on their behalf, such purchases of goods, and may authorise any of their officers to obtain such services, as may be expedient for the purpose of determining whether or not the provisions of any order made under section 22 of this Act are being complied with.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/41/section/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:47:02.300806+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."
}