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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heather-and-grass-etc-burning-england-amendment-regulations-2025/note/enacted",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1000",
  "legislation_title": "The Heather and Grass etc. Burning (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heather-and-grass-etc-burning-england-amendment-regulations-2025/enacted",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Heather and Grass etc. Burning (England) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/158) (“the 2021 Regulations”), which regulate the burning of specified vegetation on peatland in England.\nRegulation 3 removes the definition of “designated site” in regulation 2 of the 2021 Regulations, removing reference to European sites. It also introduces a definition of “less favoured area” and updates the reference in the definition of “upland area” to align with the new mapping terminology.\nRegulation 4 amends regulation 3 of the 2021 Regulations to lower the threshold for the prohibition of burning on peat from 40cm to 30cm in depth and updates terminology to align with the new mapping terminology.\nRegulation 5 amends regulation 4 of the 2021 Regulations to remove a licensing ground, amends existing grounds to include the protection of historic features, impact of wildfire, and introduces a new purpose for licensing: research or educational purposes.\nAn impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "enacted",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1000/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:11:48.272544+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."
}