{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-amendment-regulations-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2969",
  "legislation_title": "The Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "AGRICULTURE\nMade 16th December 1997\nLaid before Parliament 17th December 1997\nComing into force 15th January 1998\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, being Ministers designated for the purposes of subsection (2) of section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, acting jointly in the exercise of the powers conferred on them by that subsection, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1811."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2969/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."
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