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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-rural-communities-scotland-act-2024/schedule-1/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-rural-communities-scotland-act-2024/schedule-1/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2024/11",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-rural-communities-scotland-act-2024",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Investing in rural businesses and enterprises",
  "text": "(1) Assisting persons to—\n(a) start a business or enterprise (whether or not for profit)—\n(i) relating to agriculture, food production or processing, forestry, nature restoration or other rural land use activity, or\n(ii) otherwise, in or for a rural area or community,\n(b) develop, sustain or change such a business or enterprise (including improving productivity or diversifying into other activities),\n(c) improve the resilience of such a business or enterprise,\n(d) recover from or adapt to events which have (or may have) a negative impact (including exceptional adverse events such as a natural disaster or the outbreak of a disease or pests) on such a business or enterprise or the activities of such a business or enterprise.\n(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, “enterprise” includes co-operative societies and similar organisations.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 9 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 38(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 9 in force at 16.6.2025 by S.S.I. 2025/167, reg. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/11/schedule/1/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:06.474435+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."
}