{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farming-for-the-generations-scheme-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2024/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2024/31",
  "legislation_title": "The Farming for the Generations Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farming-for-the-generations-scheme-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2024",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Agriculture\nMade 6th March 2024\nComing into operation 6th March 2024\nThe Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5 and 6 of the Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland) 1949.\nThese Regulations are made with the approval of the Department of Finance under sections 5 and 6 of the Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland) 1949.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Ministry of Agriculture for Northern Ireland became the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, see the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 c.36 section 40 and Schedule 5 paragraph 8(1); Renamed as the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development by the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1) Article 3(4) and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 c.5 (N.I.) section 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1949 c.2 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The “Ministry of Finance” is now the “Department of Finance”; see section 1(4) of the Departments Act (NI) 2016 (c.5(N.I.))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2024/31/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:29:33.489704+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."
}