{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-environment-and-rural-communities-act-2006/section-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-environment-and-rural-communities-act-2006/section-32.json",
  "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/32",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "UK conservation bodies",
  "text": "(1) In this Part “the UK conservation bodies” means—\n(a) for England, Natural England;\n(b) for Wales, the Natural Resources Body for Wales;\n(c) for Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage;\n(d) for Northern Ireland, the Council for Nature Conservation and the Countryside.\n(2) In this Part “the GB conservation bodies” means the bodies mentioned in subsection (1)(a) to (c).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 32(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 432 (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 1.10.2006 by S.I. 2006/2541, art. 2 (with Sch.)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/16/section/32",
    "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."
}