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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1352",
  "legislation_title": "The Set-Aside Regulations 1988",
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  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Establishment and retention of plant cover",
  "text": "Notwithstanding the requirement in paragraph 4 above, the appropriate Minister may authorise a beneficiary not to cut plant cover on any land to which the requirements in this Schedule apply where that beneficiary has submitted to that Minister written proposals for the creation or maintenance of a wildlife habitat on that land.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1042",
      "affecting_title": "The Set-Aside (Amendment) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1716",
      "affecting_title": "The M32 Motorway (Hambrook Interchange to Lower Ashley Road Interchange) and Connecting Roads Scheme 1989"
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      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1716",
      "affecting_title": "The M32 Motorway (Hambrook Interchange to Lower Ashley Road Interchange) and Connecting Roads Scheme 1989"
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  },
  "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."
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