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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-development-financial-assistance-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2001/332",
  "legislation_title": "Rural Development (Financial Assistance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-development-financial-assistance-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "AGRICULTURE\nMade 26th September 2001\nComing into operation 29th October 2001\nThe Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, being a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 as regards measures relating to the operation of the Structural Funds and matters relating to the promotion of rural development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (15.10.2008) by Rural Development (Financial Assistance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/380), regs. 1, 20 (with reg. 21(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/2788 and S.I. 2000/3238"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/332/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:10:20.658482+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."
}