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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-environment-and-rural-communities-act-2006/section-13",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/16",
  "legislation_title": "Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-environment-and-rural-communities-act-2006",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Incidental powers",
  "text": "(1) Natural England may do anything that appears to it to be conducive or incidental to the discharge of its functions.\n(2) In particular, Natural England may—\n(a) enter into agreements;\n(b) acquire or dispose of property;\n(c) borrow money;\n(d) subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, form bodies corporate or acquire or dispose of interests in bodies corporate;\n(e) accept gifts;\n(f) invest money.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 13 in force at 2.5.2006 by S.I. 2006/1176, art. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/16/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:48.014805+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."
}