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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-lake-district-designation-amendment-order-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1363",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Lake District) Designation (Amendment) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-lake-district-designation-amendment-order-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order further amends the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Lake District) Designation Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/85) (“the principal Order”), which designated an area in the Lake District as an environmentally sensitive area. The principal Order designated Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2078/92 (OJ No. L215, 30.7.92, p. 85) on agricultural production methods compatible with the requirements of protection of the environment and the maintenance of the countryside, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2772/95 (OJ No. L288, 1.12.95, p. 35), as in turn rectified by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1962/96 (OJ No. L259, 12.10.96, p. 7).\nSubject to a saving provision, this Order amends the maximum rates of payment to be made by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in respect of the maintenance of heather fell and the enhanced management of heather fell.\nIn addition the Order provides for an additional payment to be made in respect of certain management activities undertaken in relation to common land.\nNo regulatory impact assessment has been prepared in respect of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1363/note",
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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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