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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fertilisers-amendment-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1543",
  "legislation_title": "The Fertilisers (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fertilisers-amendment-regulations-1997",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Fertilisers Regulations 1991 (“the principal Regulations”) and implement Commission Directive 96/28/EC (OJ No. L140, 13.6.96, p.30) adapting to technical progress Council Directive 76/116/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to fertilisers.\nThe Regulations amend Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations, which relates to prescribed descriptions of material, meanings of names, particulars and information to be contained in the statutory statement and limits of variation, as regards fertilisers specified in the Table to that Schedule, by specifying additional fertilisers which may, in accordance with Commission Directive 96/28/EC, be designated as “EEC fertilisers” (regulation 3(a) and (b) and the Schedules).",
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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."
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