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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industry-act-1980/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industry-act-1980/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/33",
  "legislation_title": "Industry Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industry-act-1980",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Functions of the Board and Agencies.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In section 1 of the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975—\n(a) in subsection (2), in paragraph (a), at the end there shall be added the words “,and in that connection to provide, maintain or safeguard employment”;\n(b) in subsection (3), after paragraph (i) there shall be added—\n“(j) to promote the private ownership of interests in industrial undertakings by the disposal of securities and other property held by the Agency or any of their subsidiaries”;\n(c) subsection (2)(c), in subsection (3)(d) the word “reorganisation”, and subsection (3)(e) shall cease to have effect; and\n(d) in subsection (11) the words from “in connection” to “above” shall cease to have effect.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1(1) repealed (6.1.1992) by British Technology Group Act 1991 (c. 66, SIF 64), s. 17(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I; S.I. 1991/2721, art.2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Ss. 1(2), 4(2) repealed (1.4.1991) by Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 35, SIF 64), s. 38(2), Sch. 5 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1975 c. 69."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1975 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 1, 4, 5(1), 6, 8(2), 9, and Schedule 2 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/33/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:59.455785+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."
}