{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-environment-and-rural-communities-act-2006/section-26",
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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/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Transfers on dissolution of English Nature and Countryside Agency",
  "text": "(1) The power conferred by subsection (2) is exercisable in connection with the dissolution of English Nature and the Countryside Agency.\n(2) The Secretary of State may make one or more schemes for the transfer of designated property, rights or liabilities of English Nature or the Countryside Agency to—\n(a) Natural England,\n(b) the Commission,\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) a Minister of the Crown.\n(3) On the transfer date, the designated property, rights or liabilities are transferred and vest in accordance with the scheme.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 26(2)(c) repealed (1.7.2012 at 0.02 a.m.) by Public Bodies Act 2011 (c. 24), s. 38(3), Sch. 6; S.I. 2012/1662, art. 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 26(4) repealed (1.7.2012 at 0.02 a.m.) by Public Bodies Act 2011 (c. 24), s. 38(3), Sch. 6; S.I. 2012/1662, art. 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 26 in force at 1.10.2006 by S.I. 2006/2541, art. 2 (with Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/16/section/26",
    "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."
}