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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-renewables-obligation-order-2015/schedule-3/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111138359",
  "legislation_title": "The Renewables Obligation Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-renewables-obligation-order-2015",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Land criteria: other fuels",
  "text": "A consignment of fuel (other than bioliquid or woody biomass) meets the land criteria if the biomaterial from which the fuel was made—\n(a) was not obtained from a protected source,\n(b) was residue (other than residue from agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries or forestry),\n(c) was an energy crop in respect of which financial assistance was paid under the Energy Crops Regulations 2000, or under an equivalent financial assistance scheme, or\n(d) was added to the fuel for an exempt purpose.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/3042 as amended by article 6(2)(b) of S.I. 2011/1043 and section 73(2) of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c.37) and regulation 3 of S.I. 2001/3900. The Energy Crops Regulations 2000 have now been revoked by regulation 35(1) of and Schedule 5 to S.I. 2014/3263, as from 1st January 2015."
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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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