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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-regulations-1995/schedule-2/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1738",
  "legislation_title": "The Arable Area Payments Regulations 1995",
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  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "The Natural Regeneration Option",
  "text": "In each field to be managed in accordance with the Natural Regeneration Option, a farmer—\n(a) shall establish a green cover by allowing natural regeneration of—\n(i) the previous herbage seed crop or combinable crop (other than a crop including maize or legumes); or\n(ii) with the consent in writing of the Minister, any other crop;\nand maintain it thereafter;\n(b) shall not carry out any operation likely to inhibit the establishment or maintenance of that green cover except that—\n(i) in the first 12 months that the field is set aside; and\n(ii) if the Minister consents, in subsequent years in which the field remains set aside,\nthe farmer may disc or shallow cultivate the field; and\n(c) shall cut the green cover in accordance with paragraph 9 below.",
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  "version": "current",
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      "affecting_title": "The Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1738/schedule/2/paragraph/6",
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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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