{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-48.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2002/3153",
  "legislation_title": "The Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-northern-ireland-order-2002",
  "path": "article/48",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Matters affecting agriculture, forestry and inland fisheries",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of the Department and the Council and any other body having functions under this Part in the exercise of such functions to have due regard to the needs of agriculture, forestry and fisheries.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Nothing in this Part shall make unlawful anything done under the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (NI 22).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 48(2) omitted (8.5.2016) by virtue of The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/76), art. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 73 (with art. 9(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2002/3153/article/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:28.857948+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}