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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-and-fairs-weighing-of-cattle-act-1926/section-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/16-17/21",
  "legislation_title": "Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Act 1926",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-and-fairs-weighing-of-cattle-act-1926",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Extension of powers of Minister to grant exemption from provisions of principal Acts.",
  "text": ". . . the power of the Minister under section 9 of the Act of 1887 to exempt any market or fair from the requirements of that Act as to the provision and maintenance of facilities for weighing cattle, and the power of the Minister under section four of the Act of 1891 to exempt an auctioneer from the requirements of that section in respect of the sale of cattle at a mart, may be exercised respectively with respect to any market or fair and with respect to any auctioneer where the circumstances are in the opinion of the Minister such as to render the enforcement of those requirements inexpedient.",
  "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      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1975 (c. 10), Sch.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": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed (E.W.) as respects (a) any local authority outside London which was a market authority for purposes of Food and Drugs Act 1938 (c. 56) by ibid., Sch. 4 Pt.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"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1975 (c. 10), s. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1887 c. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1891 c. 70."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/16-17/21/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:41:52.957604+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."
}