{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/potato-marketing-scheme-amendment-order-1987/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/potato-marketing-scheme-amendment-order-1987/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/282",
  "legislation_title": "The Potato Marketing Scheme (Amendment) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/potato-marketing-scheme-amendment-order-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "AGRICULTURE\nMade 23rd February 1987\nComing into force 1st March 1987\nWhereas the Potato Marketing Board duly submitted to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales (hereinafter called “the Ministers”) certain amendments of the Potato Marketing Scheme 1955, which amendments as subsequently modified by the Ministers are set out in the Schedule hereto;\nAnd whereas the Ministers laid before each House of Parliament the amendments set out in the said Schedule and the House of Commons resolved on 5th February 1987 and the House of Lords resolved on 5th February 1987 that they should be approved;\nNow, therefore, the Ministers, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Agricultural Marketing Act 1958, and now vested in them, hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Approved by S.I. 1955/690, amended by S.I. 1962/883, 1971/711, 1976/133, 1985/312."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1958 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "In the case of the Secretary of State for Wales, by virtue of S.I. 1969/388 and 1978/272."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/282/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."
}