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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-cordless-telephone-apparatus-restriction-order-1987/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-cordless-telephone-apparatus-restriction-order-1987/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/774",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Cordless Telephone Apparatus) (Restriction) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-cordless-telephone-apparatus-restriction-order-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "TELEGRAPHS\nMade 28th April 1987\nLaid before Parliament 30th April 1987\nComing into force 21st May 1987\nWhereas it appears to the Secretary of State to be expedient that the provisions of section 7 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1967 should apply to the wireless telegraphy apparatus specified in this Order for the purpose of preventing or reducing the risk of interference with wireless telegraphy and that such wireless telegraphy apparatus should be marked in accordance with the provisions of section 85 of the Telecommunications Act 1984:\nAnd Whereas the Secretary of State is satisfied as required by section 7(9) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1967 that the Order is compatible with international obligations of the United Kingdom:\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred by section 7(2) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1967 and section 85(1) of the Telecommunications Act 1984 hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 72; section 7 was amended by the Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12), section 77."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c. 12."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/774/introduction",
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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."
}