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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-assistance-for-environmental-purposes-order-1991/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-assistance-for-environmental-purposes-order-1991/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/682",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-assistance-for-environmental-purposes-order-1991",
  "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 to enable the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Treasury, to give financial assistance to, or for the purposes of, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce so far as its activities relate to the protection, improvement or better understanding of the environment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/682/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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