{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-test-valley-designation-amendment-order-1998/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-test-valley-designation-amendment-order-1998/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1308",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Test Valley) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-test-valley-designation-amendment-order-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "AGRICULTURE\nMade 19th May 1998\nLaid before Parliament 27th May 1998\nComing into force 22nd June 1998\nWhereas, pursuant to section 18(1) of the Agriculture Act 1986, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has by order designated an area in the Test Valley as an environmentally sensitive area (“the designated area”);\nAnd whereas it appears to the Minister that it is particularly desirable—\n(1) to conserve and enhance the natural beauty of the designated area together with an additional area in the Test Valley;\n(2) to conserve the flora and fauna and geological and physiographical features of those areas; and\n(3) to protect buildings and other objects of historic interest in that area;\nAnd whereas it appears to the Minister that the maintenance or adoption of particular agricultural methods in respect of the matters specified in the Schedules to the following Order is likely to facilitate such conservation, enhancement or protection;\nNow therefore, the said Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 18(1) and (4) of the said Act, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the consent of the Treasury and after consultation with the Secretary of State, the Countryside Commission, the Nature Conservancy Council for England in accordance with section 18(1) of the said Act, and with the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England in accordance with section 99 of the Environment Act 1995, makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 49. The expression “the Minister” is defined in section 18(11)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 18(4) was amended by S.I. 1994/249; sub-section 18(4A) was inserted by S.I. 1997/1457."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The provisions in section 18 of the Agriculture Act 1986 concerning Nature Conservancy Councils were amended by Part VII of, and Schedule 9 to, the Environment Protection Act 1990 (c. 43)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1995 c. 25."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1308/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."
}