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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-packets-customs-and-excise-amendment-regulations-1986/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-packets-customs-and-excise-amendment-regulations-1986/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1019",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Packets (Customs and Excise) (Amendment) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-packets-customs-and-excise-amendment-regulations-1986",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "POST OFFICE\nMade 16th June 1986\nComing into Operation 1st July 1986\nThe Treasury, by virtue of the powers conferred on them by section 16(2) of the Post Office Act 1953, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and on the recommendation of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise and, after consultation with the Post Office, of the Secretary of State, hereby make the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "section 16(2) was amended by the Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), section 76 and Schedule 4, paragraphs 2(1) and 2(4), and S.I. 1974/691, and extended by the Value Added Tax Act 1983 (c. 55), section 24(4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1019/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."
}