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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-variable-premium-protection-of-payments-amendment-order-1981/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-variable-premium-protection-of-payments-amendment-order-1981/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/751",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheep Variable Premium (Protection of Payments) (Amendment) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-variable-premium-protection-of-payments-amendment-order-1981",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "AGRICULTURE\nMade 15th May 1981\nLaid before Parliament 21st May 1981\nComing into Operation 22nd May 1981\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretaries of State for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5 and 35(3) of the Agriculture Act 1957, and now vested in them 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": "Section 5 is applied to Community arrangements by section 6(3) and (4) of the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68) and is to be read with the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272)."
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/751/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."
}