{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-rural-support-improvement-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-no-2-regulations-2025/introduction",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2025/9780111063880",
  "legislation_title": "The Rural Support (Improvement) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-rural-support-improvement-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-no-2-regulations-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Draft Regulations laid before the Scottish Parliament under section 2(3) of the Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 17), for approval by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.\nAGRICULTURE\nMade 2025\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Act 2020 (the “2020 Act”), Article 46(9)(b) and (c) and Article 70(4) of Regulation (EU) No1307/2013, and all other powers enabling them to do so.\nIn accordance with section 2(3) of the 2020 Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2020 asp 17, as amended by the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024 asp 11."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "EUR 2013/1307, as relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2022/279, S.I. 2020/91 and EUR 2017/2393. EUR 2013/1307 was incorporated into domestic law on exit day by section 1 of the Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Act 2020 (c. 2). Article 46(9) confers a power on the “appropriate authority” which for Scotland, is the Scottish Ministers (through the operation of the definitions of “appropriate authority” and “relevant authority” in Article 4 of Regulation EUR 2013/2017)."
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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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