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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-units-of-production-england-order-2009/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2762",
  "legislation_title": "The Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) (England) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-units-of-production-england-order-2009",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) (England) Order 2009 and comes into force on 7th November 2009.\n(2) In this Order—\n“Council Regulation 1782/2003” means Council Regulation (EC) No. 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers and amending certain Regulations;\n“eligible hectare” is to be construed in accordance with Article 44(2) of Council Regulation 1782/2003;\n“the HFA Regulations” means the Hill Farm Allowance Regulations 2009;\n“moorland” means all the land that is—\n(a) severely disadvantaged land, and\n(b) shown coloured pink in the three volumes of maps entitled “Moorland Map of England 2006” each volume being marked with the number of the volume, dated 7th October 2007, signed on behalf of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and deposited at the offices of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Ergon House, Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AL; and\n“severely disadvantaged land” means any area of land shown coloured pink on the three volumes of maps numbered 1 to 3, each volume being marked “Volume of maps of less-favoured farming areas in England”, dated 20th May 1991, signed and sealed by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and deposited at the offices of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Ergon House, Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AL.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No L 270, 21.10.2003, p 1; repealed by Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 (OJ No L 30, 31.1.2009, p 16)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2009/138."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2762/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:04:30.052802+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."
}