{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-sperrins-designation-amendment-order-northern-ireland-1997/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-sperrins-designation-amendment-order-northern-ireland-1997/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/301",
  "legislation_title": "Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Sperrins) Designation (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-sperrins-designation-amendment-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "AGRICULTURE\nMade 20th June 1997\nComing into operation 28th July 1997\nWhereas, in accordance with Article 3(1) of the Agriculture (Environmental Areas) (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (“the 1987 Order”), it appears to the Department of Agriculture that it is particularly desirable—\n(1) to conserve and enhance the natural beauty of the area referred to in Article 3 of the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Sperrins) Designation Order (Northern Ireland) 1994;\n(2) to conserve the flora and fauna and geological and physiographical features of that area; and\n(3) to protect buildings and other objects of archaeological, architectural or historic interest in that area;\nAnd whereas, in accordance with the said Article 3(1) of the 1987 Order it appears to the Department of Agriculture that the maintenance and adoption of the agricultural methods specified in this Order is likely to facilitate the aforementioned conservation, enhancement and protection;\nNow, therefore, the Department of Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 3(1) and (3) of the 1987 Order and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, with the consent of the Department of Finance and Personnel, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/458 (N.I. 3); Article 3(3) was amended by S.R. 1994 No. 419"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1994 No. 213 as amended by S.R. 1995 No. 179 and S.R. 1996 No. 606"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/301/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."
}