{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/norfolk-and-suffolk-broads-act-1988/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/4",
  "legislation_title": "Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/norfolk-and-suffolk-broads-act-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to establish an authority to be known as the Broads Authority; to make provision with respect to its powers; to make provision with respect to the area commonly known as the Broads and with respect to the Great Yarmouth Port and Haven and its Commissioners; to provide for the making of grants to the Authority by the Secretary of State; and for connected purposes.\n[15th March 1988]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:—Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:—Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "By Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c.43, SIF 46:4), ss. 132(1), 164(3), Sch. 9 para. 15; S.I. 1991/685, art. 3, it is provided (1.4.1991) that in the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988, for each reference to the Nature Conservancy Council there shall be substituted a reference to the Nature Conservancy Council for England"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act: Definition \"the Broads\" applied (1.12.1991) by Water Industry Act 1991 (c. 56, SIF 130), ss. 4(6), 156(8), 223(2) (with ss. 82(3), 186(1), 222(1), Sch. 14 para. 6)Act: Definition \"the Broads\" applied (1.12.1991) by Water Resources Act 1991 (c. 57, SIF 130), ss. 17(5), 225(2) (with ss. 16(6), 222(3), 224(1), Sch. 22 para. 1, Sch. 23 para. 6)Act: Definition \"the Broads\" applied (1.12.1991) by Land Drainage Act 1991 (c. 59, SIF 73:1), ss. 13(5), 76(2) (with ss. 67(3)(5)(8), 72(6) and 74(3)(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act applied (2.7.2009) by Broads Authority Act 2009 (c. i), s. 35(2)(a) (with ss. 2(3), 3(1), 16(3), 42, Sch. 6 Pts. 2, 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act modified (2.7.2009) by Broads Authority Act 2009 (c. i), s. 33 (with ss. 2(3), 3(1), 16(3), 42, Sch. 6 Pts. 2, 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act applied (2.7.2009) by Broads Authority Act 2009 (c. i), s. 35(3) (with ss. 2(3), 3(1), 16(3), 42, Sch. 6 Pts. 2, 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act partly in force at Royal Assent see s. 26; Act wholly in force at 1.4.1989."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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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