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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-environment-and-rural-communities-act-2006/section-85",
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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/85",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "85",
  "heading": "Supplementary provisions with respect to agreements",
  "text": "(1) An agreement, and any approval given by the Secretary of State under section 79, must be in writing.\n(2) The Secretary of State must arrange for a copy of an agreement to be published in a way that the Secretary of State thinks is suitable for bringing it to the attention of persons likely to be affected by it.\n(3) No power of a Minister of the Crown under any enactment to give directions to a statutory body extends to giving a direction—\n(a) requiring it to enter into an agreement;\n(b) prohibiting it from entering into an agreement;\n(c) requiring it to include, or prohibiting it from including, particular terms;\n(d) requiring it to negotiate, or prohibiting it from negotiating, a variation or termination of an agreement.\n(4) Schedule 15 to the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40) (restrictions on disclosure of information) applies in relation to an authorisation by a designated body under this Chapter as it applies in relation to an authorisation under section 69 of that Act by an office-holder.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 85 in force at 31.5.2006 by S.I. 2006/1382, art. 2"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/16/section/85",
    "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."
}