{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1993/schedule-4/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1993/schedule-4/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/37",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1993",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where section 35(1) above applies on the vesting day under an approved scheme, the provisions of the scheme shall, to the extent that they fall within sub-paragraph (2) below, have effect by virtue of this paragraph.\n(2) The provisions of an approved scheme fall within this sub-paragraph to the extent that they purport—\n(a) to impose on one relevant body an obligation on or after the vesting day under the scheme to enter into a written agreement with, or execute an instrument in favour of, another relevant body;\n(b) to create for one relevant body, on the vesting day under the scheme, an interest in or right over property transferred under section 35 above to another relevant body; or\n(c) to adapt, with effect from the vesting day under the scheme, references to members or officers of the Board in a document or oral agreement relating to anything transferred under section 35 above.\n(3) The provisions of an approved scheme only fall within sub-paragraph (2) above by virtue of paragraph (c) of that sub-paragraph to the extent that their purpose is to prevent, so far as reasonably possible, the effect of the provisions in which the references concerned occur being materially altered as a result of the transfer.\n(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) above, the following are relevant bodies in relation to an approved scheme—\n(a) the Board, and\n(b) any body to which property, rights or liabilities of the Board are transferred under section 35 above.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/37/schedule/4/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:52.850394+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."
}