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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-units-of-production-england-order-2024/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/30",
  "legislation_title": "The Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) (England) Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-units-of-production-england-order-2024",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Assessment of productive capacity of land",
  "text": "(1) Paragraphs (2) and (3) and the Schedule have effect for the purpose of the assessment of the productive capacity of a unit of agricultural land situated in England in order to determine whether that unit is a commercial unit of agricultural land within the meaning of paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 6 to the 1986 Act.\n(2) Where the land in question is capable, when farmed under competent management, of being used to produce any livestock, farm arable crop, outdoor horticultural crop or fruit as is mentioned in any of the entries under headings number 1, 2 or 3 in Column 1 of the table in the Schedule—\n(a) the unit of production prescribed in relation to that use of the land is the unit in the corresponding entry in Column 2 of that table; and\n(b) the amount determined, for the period of 12 months beginning with 23rd February 2024, as the net annual income from that unit of production in that period is the amount in the corresponding entry in Column 3 of that table as read with any relevant note to the Schedule.\n(3) Where the land in question is capable, when farmed under competent management, of producing a net annual income and was an eligible hectare in 2022 in accordance with the entry under heading number 4 in Column 1 of the table in the Schedule, as read with any relevant note to the Schedule—\n(a) the unit of production prescribed in relation to that use of the land is the unit in the corresponding entry in Column 2 of that table; and\n(b) the amount determined, for the period of 12 months beginning with 23rd February 2024, as the net annual income from that unit of production in that period is the amount in the corresponding entry in Column 3 of that table.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/30/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:36:10.109872+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."
}