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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-access-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/609",
  "legislation_title": "Countryside Access (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-access-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "AGRICULTURE\nMade 23rd December 1996\nComing into operation 1st January 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 by Article 3(1) and (2) of the Agriculture (Conservation Grants) (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and of all other powers 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/3212 (N.I. 21)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/609/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."
}