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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horticulture-pilot-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2025/103",
  "legislation_title": "The Horticulture Pilot Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horticulture-pilot-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Agriculture\nMade 5th June 2025\nComing into operation 26th June 2025\nThe Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, with the approval of the Department of Finance, makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5(2B) and 6(1)(f) of the Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland) 1949.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Ministry of Agriculture for Northern Ireland became the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland by the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 c.36 section 40 and Schedule 5 paragraph 8(1); Renamed as the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development by the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1) Article 3(4) and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs by the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 c.5 (N.I.) section 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The “Ministry of Finance” is now the “Department of Finance”; see regulation 1(4) of the Departments Act (NI) 2016 C.5 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1949 c.2 (N.I.)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/103/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:25:51.491806+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."
}