{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-hedges-fees-wales-regulations-2004/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-hedges-fees-wales-regulations-2004/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2004/3241",
  "legislation_title": "The High Hedges (Fees) (Wales) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-hedges-fees-wales-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and application",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the High Hedges (Fees) (Wales) Regulations 2004 and come into force on 31 December 2004.\n(2) These Regulations apply to complaints made, in relation to hedges situated in Wales, under section 68 of the Act to a relevant authority on or after the date on which these Regulations come into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 66 of the Act for the meaning of “high hedge”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 65(5) of the Act defines the “relevant authority” as the local authority in whose area the land, on which the high hedge is situated, lies. Section 82 of the Act defines “local authority”, in relation to Wales, as the county or county borough council."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2004/3241/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:07:19.555565+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."
}