{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hedgerows-regulations-1997/schedule-1/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hedgerows-regulations-1997/schedule-1/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1160",
  "legislation_title": "The Hedgerows Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hedgerows-regulations-1997",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Archaeology and history",
  "text": "The hedgerow—\n(a) is recorded in a document held at the relevant date at a Record Office as an integral part of a field system pre-dating the Inclosure Acts; or\n(b) is part of, or visibly related to, any building or other feature associated with such a system, and that system—\n(i) is substantially complete; or\n(ii) is of a pattern which is recorded in a document prepared before the relevant date by a local planning authority, within the meaning of the 1990 Act, for the purposes of development control within the authority’s area, as a key landscape characteristic.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 5 in force at 1.6.1997, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 1 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, as amended by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1160/schedule/1/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:08:57.169340+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."
}