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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-waste-grant-nitrate-vulnerable-zonesengland-scheme-2003/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-waste-grant-nitrate-vulnerable-zonesengland-scheme-2003/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/562",
  "legislation_title": "The Farm Waste Grant (Nitrate Vulnerable Zones)(England) Scheme 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-waste-grant-nitrate-vulnerable-zonesengland-scheme-2003",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "AGRICULTURE, ENGLAND\nApproved by both Houses of ParliamentMade 6th March 2003\nLaid before Parliament 10th March 2003\nComing into force 7th March 2003\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by section 29 of the Agriculture Act 1970, with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Scheme—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1970 c. 40. See section 28 for a definition of “the appropriate authority”. The provision in section 29(2)(a) setting out the territorial application of any Scheme should be read with article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978/272, article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the 0National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999/672 and section 42 of the Government of Wales Act 1988 (c. 38). The functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were transferred to the Secretary of State by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002/794."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/562/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:30:11.713259+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."
}