{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-potatoes-scotland-amendment-order-2010/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-potatoes-scotland-amendment-order-2010/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2010/99",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Potatoes) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-potatoes-scotland-amendment-order-2010",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Plant Health\nMade 11th March 2010\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 12th March 2010\nComing into force 29th March 2010\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3(1) to (4) and 4(1) of the Plant Health Act 1967, as read with section 20 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972, and all other powers enabling them to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c.8. Sections 2(1), 3(1) and (2) and 4(1) 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)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 62."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/99/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."
}