{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recovery-vehicles-prescribed-purposes-regulations-1989/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recovery-vehicles-prescribed-purposes-regulations-1989/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1376",
  "legislation_title": "The Recovery Vehicles (Prescribed Purposes) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recovery-vehicles-prescribed-purposes-regulations-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ROAD TRAFFIC\nMade 2nd August 1989\nLaid before Parliament 11th August 1989\nComing into force 1st September 1989\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 37(1) and (2) and 38(1) of and paragraph 8(2)(e) and 8(3)(c) of Part I of Schedule 3 to the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971, and of all other enabling powers, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 10. Paragraph 8 was added to Part I of Schedule 3 by the Finance Act 1987 (c. 16), Schedule 1, Part II, paragraph 2, and was amended by section 4(3)(b), (c) and (d) of the Finance Act 1988 (c. 39). In section 38(1) of the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971 see the definition of “prescribed”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1376/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."
}