{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-carriage-of-perishable-foodstuffs-act-1976-amendment-order-1983/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1983/1123",
  "legislation_title": "The International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs Act 1976 (Amendment) Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-carriage-of-perishable-foodstuffs-act-1976-amendment-order-1983",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ROAD TRAFFIC\nLaid before Parliament in draft\nMade 27th July 1983\nComing into operation in accordance with Article 1\nAt the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 27th day of July 1983\nPresent,\nThe Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council\nWhereas it appears to Her Majesty in Council that Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have agreed to certain alterations of the Agreement on the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs and on the Special Equipment to be Used for such Carriage (ATP):\nAnd whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 16(1) of the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs Act 1976, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Cmnd. 8272."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "sections 6(3) and (4), 7(2), 8(1) and (2), 9(1), 10(3) and 11(5) are modified by Parts III and IV of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c.48); section 9 is modified by section 289B(2) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c.21) (inserted by section 63 of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 11 to, the Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45)) and by section 32(2) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43), and repealed in part by section 30 of, Part I of the Schedule to, the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 (c. 45); section 16 is amended by section 9 of, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to, the International Transport Conventions Act 1983 (c. 14)."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/1123/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."
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