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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-great-britain-amendment-scotland-order-2004/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2004/440",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Great Britain) Amendment (Scotland) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-great-britain-amendment-scotland-order-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PLANT HEALTH\nMade 7th October 2004\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 8th October 2004\nComing into force 11th November 2004\nThe Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2 and 3 of the Plant Health Act 1967 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 8; sections 2(1) and 3(1) and (2) were amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4(1) and Schedule 4, paragraph 8; section 3(4) was substituted by section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48) and further amended by section 17(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53) and the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993 (c. 50), section 1(1) and Schedule 1, Part XIV. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46)."
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/440/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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