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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-defined-activities-exemptions-no-1-england-order-1999/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-defined-activities-exemptions-no-1-england-order-1999/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2023",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Exemptions) (No. 1) (England) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-defined-activities-exemptions-no-1-england-order-1999",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Exemption of maintenance of ground",
  "text": "The maintenance of ground by the Council of the London Borough of Southwark shall not be treated as a defined activity so long as–\n(a) it is carried out during the period beginning with 13th August 1999 and ending immediately before 1st April 2000; and\n(b) it is restricted to the planting and tending of trees on land which forms part of, or adjoins, a site on which the Council provide housing accommodation under Part II of the Housing Act 1985.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 2(2)(f) of, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to, the Local Government Act 1988."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c. 68."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2023/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:32.577912+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."
}