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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horticultural-produce-act-1986/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horticultural-produce-act-1986/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/20",
  "legislation_title": "Horticultural Produce Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horticultural-produce-act-1986",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to confer on authorised officers (within the meaning of Part III of the Agriculture and Horticulture Act 1964) powers in relation to the movement of horticultural produce; and for purposes connected therewith.\n[26th June 1986]\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:—Be 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: transfer of functions (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act excluded (S.) (1.7.2009) by Marketing of Horticultural Produce (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/225), regs. 1(1), 24(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act excluded (1.7.2009) by Marketing of Fresh Horticultural Produce Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1361), regs. 1(1), 22(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act excluded (16.7.2009) by Marketing of Fresh Horticultural Produce (Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1551), regs. 1, 22(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act excluded (N.I.) (25.6.2010) by The Marketing of Fresh Horticulture Produce Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/198), regs. 1, 24(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act excluded (S.) (10.10.2011) by The Bananas (Enforcement of Quality Standards) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/325), regs. 1(1), 21(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act excluded (11.5.2012) by The Quality Standards for Green Bananas (England and Wales) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/947), regs. 1(b), 22(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Act excluded (S.) (1.2.2013) by The Marketing of Bananas (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/349), regs. 1(1), 21(a)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/20/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:21.247917+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."
}