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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-of-trade-act-1947/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-of-trade-act-1947/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/10-11/39",
  "legislation_title": "Statistics of Trade Act 1947",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-of-trade-act-1947",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to enable certain government departments to obtain more readily the information necessary for the appreciation of economic trends and for the discharge of their functions; to consolidate and amend the law relating to the census of production; to provide for a census of distribution and other services; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.\n[31st July 1947]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Functions of Board of Trade now exercisable concurrently by Secretary of State: S.I. 1970/1537, art. 2(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Certain functions of the Secretary of State transferred to the Chancellor of the Exchequer so as to be exercisable by him concurrently with the Secretary of State: S.I. 1989/992, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act amended by S.I. 1989/992, art. 6(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act amended (S.) (1.4.1991) by Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 35, SIF 64), s. 12(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act excluded (E.W.S.) (1.4.2006) by Railways Act 2005 (c. 14), s. 60(2), Sch. 3 para. 11(5); S.I. 2006/266, art. 2(2), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at Royal Assent."
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "For extent of this Act see s. 19(2)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/10-11/39/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:54.620640+00:00"
  },
  "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."
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