{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-environment-and-rural-communities-act-2006/section-82",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-environment-and-rural-communities-act-2006/section-82.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/82",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "82",
  "heading": "Maximum duration of agreement",
  "text": "The maximum period for which an agreement may authorise a designated body to perform—\n(a) a DEFRA or DESNZ function, or\n(b) a function that is related to or connected with a DEFRA or DESNZ function,\nis 20 years.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 82(a) substituted (3.5.2023) by The Secretaries of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, for Science, Innovation and Technology, for Business and Trade, and for Culture, Media and Sport and the Transfer of Functions (National Security and Investment Act 2021 etc) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/424), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 13(2)(d) (with art. 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 82(b) substituted (3.5.2023) by The Secretaries of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, for Science, Innovation and Technology, for Business and Trade, and for Culture, Media and Sport and the Transfer of Functions (National Security and Investment Act 2021 etc) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/424), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 13(2)(d) (with art. 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 82 in force at 31.5.2006 by S.I. 2006/1382, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/16/section/82",
    "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."
}