{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/importation-of-hay-and-straw-order-1979/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/importation-of-hay-and-straw-order-1979/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1703",
  "legislation_title": "The Importation of Hay and Straw Order 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/importation-of-hay-and-straw-order-1979",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exceptions",
  "text": "The prohibition in article 3 of this order shall not apply to the landing of—\n(a) hay or straw which at the time of landing is being used for packing merchandise;\n(b) goods or articles manufactured from straw; or\n(c) esparto grass.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (E.W.) (11.7.2018) by The Environment and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Revocations) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/739), arts. 1(1), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in force at 1.2.1980, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1703/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:08:01.849107+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."
}