{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-2021/section-104",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-2021/section-104.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/30",
  "legislation_title": "Environment Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-2021",
  "path": "section/104",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "104",
  "heading": "Local nature recovery strategies for England",
  "text": "(1) There are to be local nature recovery strategies for areas in England.\n(2) Together the local nature recovery strategies are to cover the whole of England.\n(3) The Secretary of State is to determine the areas within England to which individual local nature recovery strategies are to relate.\n(4) The area of a local authority, other than a county council, may not be split between local nature recovery strategies.\n(5) Section 40(2A) of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (duty to conserve biodiversity) makes provision about the duties of public authorities in relation to local nature recovery strategies.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 104 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 147(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 104 in force at 24.1.2022 by S.I. 2022/48, reg. 2(n)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/30/section/104",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T16:58:53.973135+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}