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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forest-reproductive-material-great-britain-regulations-2002/schedule-3/paragraph-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forest-reproductive-material-great-britain-regulations-2002/schedule-3/paragraph-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/3026",
  "legislation_title": "The Forest Reproductive Material (Great Britain) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forest-reproductive-material-great-britain-regulations-2002",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Form or Growth Habit:",
  "text": "The appropriate authority shall be satisfied that trees in stands show particularly good morphological features, especially straightness and circularity of stem, favourable branching habit, small size of branches and good natural pruning. In addition, they shall be satisfied that the proportion of forked trees and those showing spiral grain is low.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 160(2) (with Sch. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3026/schedule/3/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:37:38.037358+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."
}