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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-package-holidays-tour-operators-and-travel-agents-order-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1945",
  "legislation_title": "The Foreign Package Holidays (Tour Operators and Travel Agents) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-package-holidays-tour-operators-and-travel-agents-order-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MONOPOLIES AND MERGERS\nMade 7th August 1998\nLaid before Parliament 10th August 1998\nComing into force 16th November 1998\nWhereas the Secretary of State, as required by section 91(2) of the Fair Trading Act 1973, published a notice on 7th January 1998 of her intention to make this Order, and invited written representations to be made to her before 11th February 1998 about the provisions proposed to be contained in it;\nAnd whereas the Secretary of State has considered the representations received;\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, being the appropriate Minister under section 56 of the said Act, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 56(2) and 90(2), (3) and (4) of, and paragraphs 1, 4, and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the said Act, and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and for the purpose of remedying or preventing the adverse effects specified in the report of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission entitled “Foreign Package Holidays: A report on the supply in the UK of tour operators' services and travel agents' services in relation to foreign package holidays”, hereby makes the following Order:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1973 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Cm. 3813."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1945/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."
}