{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-etc-miscellaneous-provision-order-1977/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-etc-miscellaneous-provision-order-1977/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/293",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities etc. (Miscellaneous Provision) Order 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-etc-miscellaneous-provision-order-1977",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Franchise and prescriptive rights",
  "text": "(1) The power to maintain the Brackley market exercisable immediately before 1st April 1974 by the corporation or council of the borough of Brackley shall be exercisable by the Town Council of Brackley, and the said Town Council shall have the same powers in relation to the said market as were exercisable immediately before 1st April 1974 by the said corporation or council.\n(2) The power to maintain the Biggleswade market exercisable immediately before 1st April 1974 by the urban district council of Biggleswade shall be exercisable by the Town Council of Biggleswade, and the said Town Council shall have the same powers in relation to the said market as were exercisable immediately before 1st April 1974 by the said urban district council.\n(3) Any powers to maintain markets exercisable immediately before 1st April 1974 by the urban district council of Raunds under any franchise or by virtue of prescription shall be exercisable by the Town Council of Raunds, and the said Town Council shall have the same powers in relation to any such market as were exercisable immediately before 1st April 1974 by the said urban district council.\n(4) Article 7 of the Local Authorities etc. (Miscellaneous Provision) Order 1976 shall cease to have effect and the District Council of Epping Forest shall have the same powers in relation to the Waltham Abbey market as were exercisable by them before the said order came into operation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1976 I, p. 842)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/293/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:09:00.899823+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."
}