{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-and-fairs-weighing-of-cattle-act-1887/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-and-fairs-weighing-of-cattle-act-1887/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/50-51/27",
  "legislation_title": "Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Act 1887",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-and-fairs-weighing-of-cattle-act-1887",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Power to exempt certain markets and fairs from provisions of Act.",
  "text": "(1) The market authority of any market or fair may at any time apply to the Local Government Board to be exempted from the provisions of this Act . . . . . . ; and thereupon the Local Government Board may by order declare that this Act shall not apply to such market or fair until after the expiration of a time not exceeding three years to be limited by such order. Any order made under this section may at any time be wholly or partially rescinded, altered, or extended by any subsequent order of the Local Government Board.\n(2) This Act shall not apply to any market or fair to which any order under this section applies so long as it is declared by such order that this Act shall not apply thereto.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1975 (c. 10), Sch. Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 9 amended by Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Act 1926 (c. 21), s. 2; power to extend s. 9 conferred by Agriculture Act 1967 (c. 22), s. 4(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Functions of Local Government Board under s. 9 now exercisable by Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Act 1891 (c. 70), s. 1; Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1903 (c. 31), s. 1(1), Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1919 (c. 91), s. 1(1) and S.I. 1955/554 (1955 I, p. 1200), art. 3(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Ss. 4, 5, 8, 9, Sch. repealed (E.W.) as respects (a) any local authority outside London which was a market authority for purposes of Food and Drugs Act 1938 (c. 56) by ibid., Sch. 4 Pt. I and (b) any London borough council which was a market authority for purposes of Food and Drugs Act 1955 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2 c. 16), Pt. III by London Government Act 1963 (c. 33), Sch. 18 Pt. II"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/50-51/27/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:36:48.887390+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."
}