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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hedgerows-regulations-1997/schedule-1/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hedgerows-regulations-1997/schedule-1/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1160",
  "legislation_title": "The Hedgerows Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hedgerows-regulations-1997",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Wildlife and landscape",
  "text": "The hedgerow—\n(a) is adjacent to a bridleway or footpath, within the meaning of the Highways Act 1980, a road used as a public path, within the meaning of section 54 (duty to reclassify roads used as public paths) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, or a byway open to all traffic, within the meaning of Part III of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and\n(b) includes at least 4 woody species, ascertained in accordance with paragraph 7(3) and at least 2 of the features specified in paragraph 7(4)(a) to (g).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 8 in force at 1.6.1997, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 66. See the definition of “bridleway” and “footpath” in section 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1981 c. 69."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See the definition in section 66(1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1160/schedule/1/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}