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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-waste-grant-nitrate-vulnerable-zones-england-and-wales-scheme-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/908",
  "legislation_title": "The Farm Waste Grant (Nitrate Vulnerable Zones) (England and Wales) Scheme 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-waste-grant-nitrate-vulnerable-zones-england-and-wales-scheme-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "AGRICULTURE\nApproved by both Houses of ParliamentMade 22nd March 1996\nLaid before Parliament 25th March 1996\nComing into force 17th April 1996\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 28 and 29 of the Agriculture Act 1970 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, with the approval of the Treasury, hereby make the following Scheme:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1970 c. 40; section 28(1) defines “the appropriate authority”."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/908/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."
}