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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/habitat-improvement-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/351",
  "legislation_title": "Habitat Improvement (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/habitat-improvement-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese Regulations further amend the Habitat Improvement Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (“the 1995 Regulations”), which implement in part a zonal programme approved by the European Commission (“the Commission”) under Article 7 of the Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2078/92. (O.J. No. L215, 30.7.92, p. 85) (“the Agri-environment Regulations”) on agricultural production methods compatible with the requirements of the protection of the environment and the maintenance of the countryside.\nThese Regulations make provision for the payment by the Department of Agriculture of aid for the erection of stock-proof fencing including gates and posts at a rate to be determined and agreed where that Department considers that such fencing is necessary for the beneficiary to comply with an undertaking given under the 1995 Regulations.\nNo Compliance Cost Assessment in relation to these Regulations has been prepared.",
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  "version": "current",
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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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