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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-assistance-for-environmental-purposes-no-4-order-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3234",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (No. 4) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-assistance-for-environmental-purposes-no-4-order-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order varies section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 so as to enable the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Treasury, to give financial assistance to, or for the purposes of, an international agreement, namely the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North East Atlantic (Cmnd 2265).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3234/note",
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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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