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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1968-commencement-no-6-order-1970/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1970/259",
  "legislation_title": "The Transport Act 1968 (Commencement No. 6) Order 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1968-commencement-no-6-order-1970",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order brings into operation on the 1st March 1970 the following provisions of the Transport Act 1968:—\nSection 64(5) (which enables licensing authorities in considering applications for operators' licences to be assisted by assessors);\nSection 71(8) (which defines “hauling vehicle”, an expression used in the definition of “large goods vehicle”);\nSection 82(6) (which enables officers to seize certain documents and articles and relates to their disposal);\nSection 82(7), (8) and (9) (which contains provisions ancillary to section 82(6));\nSection 96(1) to (9) and (11) (which relates to permitted driving times and periods of duty of drivers of goods vehicles);\nSection 99(1) to (9) (which empowers officers to require the production of, inspect and copy records and other documents and to enter premises);\nSection 100 (which enables the Minister and the Governor of Northern Ireland to make provision by order to enable effect to be given to international agreements relating to drivers or crews of vehicles used on international journeys);\nSection 103(8) and Schedule 11 (which make amendments to enactments consequential on the introduction of Part VI);\nSection 165 and certain provisions of Part III of Schedule 18 (which repeal provisions of the Road Traffic Acts of 1960 and 1962 consequential on the introduction of Part VI as respects goods vehicles).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/259/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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