{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-prevention-of-pollution-code-of-practice-order-1991/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2285",
  "legislation_title": "The Water (Prevention of Pollution) (Code of Practice) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-prevention-of-pollution-code-of-practice-order-1991",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Code of Practice",
  "text": "The Code of Good Agricultural Practice for the Protection of Water dated July 1991, which was issued by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Wales, and of which a copy was deposited in each House of Parliament on 1st July 1991—\n(a) to give practical guidance to persons engaged in agriculture with respect to activities that may affect controlled waters; and\n(b) to promote what appear to them to be desirable practices by such persons for avoiding or minimising the pollution of any such waters,\nis hereby approved.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Seethe definition of “controlled waters” in section 103(1) of the Water Act 1989."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2285/article/2",
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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."
}