{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/travellers-allowances-amendment-order-1995/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/travellers-allowances-amendment-order-1995/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3044",
  "legislation_title": "The Travellers' Allowances Amendment Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/travellers-allowances-amendment-order-1995",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThis Order, which comes into force on 1st January 1996, increases the allowance for goods, other than wines, spirits, tobacco, perfume and toilet water, obtained by a traveller in a third country and contained in the traveller’s baggage (the “other goods”allowance), from £136 to £145.\nCouncil Directive 94/4/EC (OJ No. L60, 3.3.94, p.14), by amending Council Directive 69/169/EEC (OJ No. L133, 4.6.69, p.6), increased the “other goods”allowance to 175 ECU with effect from 1st April 1994. Accordingly the Travellers' Allowances Order 1994, pursuant to Article 7 of Council Directive 69/169/EEC as amended by Council Directive 78/1032/EEC (OJ No. L366, 28.12.78, p.28), increased the “other goods”allowance to the equivalent in national currency of £136. From 1st January 1996 the equivalent in national currency will be £145.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3044/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."
}