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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-act-1985/schedule-4/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/72",
  "legislation_title": "Weights and Measures Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-act-1985",
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  "number": "1",
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  "text": "In this Schedule, \" ballast\" means any of the following materials, that is to say—\n(a) sand, gravel, shingle, ashes and clinker of any description,\n(b) broken slag, slag chippings, granite chippings, limestone chippings, slate chippings and other stone chippings (including such materials which have been coated with tar, bitumen or cement),\n(c) any other material commonly used in the building and civil engineering industries as a hardcore or an aggregate, and\n(d) any other material commonly known in those industries as ballast.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/72/schedule/4/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:41.980135+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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