{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hill-farming-act-1985/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hill-farming-act-1985/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/32",
  "legislation_title": "Hill Farming Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hill-farming-act-1985",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Burning of bracken, gorse and vaccinium.",
  "text": "The power under section 20 of the Hill Farming Act 1946 to make regulations with respect to the burning of heather and grass in England and Wales shall apply also to the burning of bracken, gorse and vaccinium; and accordingly, for the words “and grass”—\n(a) in both places where they occur in subsection (1) of that section; and\n(b) in section 37(1)(g) of that Act (which lists regulations under section 20 among the instruments under that Act which are subject to negative resolution),\nthere shall be substituted the words “, grass, bracken, gorse and vaccinium”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1946 c. 73."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/32/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:18.390698+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."
}