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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-management-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2001/43",
  "legislation_title": "Countryside Management Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-management-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "AGRICULTURE\nMade 5th February 2001\nComing into operation 20th March 2001\nThe Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 3 of the Agriculture (Conservation Grants) (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, and 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 the said section 2(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, and with the consent of the Department of Finance and Personnel, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Formerly the Department of Agriculture. See S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Article 3(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/3212 (N.I. 21)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1811"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/43/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."
}