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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/whaling-industry-regulation-act-1934/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49",
  "legislation_title": "Whaling Industry (Regulation) Act 1934",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/whaling-industry-regulation-act-1934",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to enable effect to be given to a Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, signed at Geneva on behalf of His Majesty on the twenty-fourth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-one; to prohibit the taking or treating of whales within the coastal waters of the United Kingdom; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.\n[31st July 1934]",
  "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act excluded (retrospective to 1.10.1989) by Pakistan Act 1990 (c. 14, SIF 26:30), s. 1, Sch. para. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act: the expression \"British ship to which this Act applies\" excluded (retrospective to 21.3.1990 for a British ship registered in Namibia) by Namibia Act 1991 (c. 4, SIF 26:25A), s. 1, Sch. para. 6 (with s. 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "By Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), S. 10(1), Sch. 12 para.23; S.I. 1991/2208, art. 2(1), Sch.1 it is provided (14.10.1991) that in relation to any time before the commencement of s. 70 of that 1991 Act (which came into force on 1.10.1992 by S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2) references in any enactment amended by that 1991 Act, to youth courts shall be construed as references to Juvenile Courts."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent; by order under s. 19(2) (now repealed) Act wholly in force at 16. 8. 1934 by S.R. & O. 1934/906"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:36:18.283787+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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