{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-functions-radioactive-substances-wales-order-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2598",
  "legislation_title": "The Transfer of Functions (Radioactive Substances) (Wales) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-functions-radioactive-substances-wales-order-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nArticle 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272) transferred functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the Radioactive Substances Act 1960, as referred to in that Order, so far as those functions were exercisable in relation to Wales, to the Secretary of State. The 1960 Act is amended by Part V of, and Schedule 5 to, the Environmental Protection Act 1990. The present Order transfers the functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under those amendments, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, to the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2598/note",
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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."
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