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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-and-rural-affairs-miscellaneous-revocations-regulations-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/639",
  "legislation_title": "The Environment and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Revocations) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-and-rural-affairs-miscellaneous-revocations-regulations-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Animals, England\nAgriculture, England\nEnvironmental Protection, England\nWater, England And Wales\nMade 10th March 2015\nLaid before Parliament 11th March 2015\nComing into force 1st April 2015\nThe Secretary of State is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the common agricultural policy and the environment.\nThe Secretary of State has consulted Natural England and the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England in accordance with section 99 of the Environment Act 1995.\nThe Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 to the Water Act 1983 and, with the consent of the Treasury, section 56(1) and (2) of the Finance Act 1973.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51), section 27(1)(a) and the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7), the Schedule, Part 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1811. The functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were transferred to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794), article 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/301."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1995 c. 25; section 99 was amended by the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 1996 (c. 16), Schedule 11, Part 1, paragraph 145."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1983 c. 23; paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 was amended by the Employment Rights Act 1996 (c. 18), Schedule 3, Part 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1973 c. 51; section 56(1) was amended by S.I. 2011/1043."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/639/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."
}