{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/477",
  "legislation_title": "Arable Area Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "AGRICULTURE\nEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES\nMade 3rd November 1997\nComing into operation 12th December 1997\nThe Department of Agriculture, being a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that section, and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1811"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 to that Act and is to be read with S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3) and S.I. 1994/2795 (N.I. 15)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/477/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."
}