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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-single-payment-and-support-schemes-cross-compliance-england-regulations-2004/schedule/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3196",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) (England) Regulations 2004",
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  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Hedgerows",
  "text": "(1) Except where sub-paragraph (2), (3) or (4) applies, a farmer must not cut or trim any hedgerow during the period within any year beginning with 1st March and ending with 31st July.\n(2) A farmer may cut or trim a hedgerow at any time if it is necessary to cut or trim it because—\n(a) it overhangs a highway or any other road or footpath to which the public has access so as to endanger or obstruct the passage of vehicles or pedestrians;\n(b) it obstructs or interferes with the view of drivers of vehicles or the light from a public lamp;\n(c) it overhangs a highway so as to endanger or obstruct the passage of horse-riders; or\n(d) it is dead, diseased, damaged or insecurely rooted, and because of its condition it, or part of it, is likely to cause danger by falling on a highway, road or footpath.\n(3) A farmer may carry out hedge-laying and coppicing during the period beginning with 1st March and ending with 30th April.\n(4) A farmer may trim a hedgerow by hand during a period of six months beginning with the first day after the hedgerow was laid.",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3196/schedule/paragraph/12",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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