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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-definitive-maps-and-statements-regulations-1993/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/12",
  "legislation_title": "The Wildlife and Countryside (Definitive Maps and Statements) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-definitive-maps-and-statements-regulations-1993",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations re-enact the Wildlife and Countryside (Definitive Maps and Statements) Regulations 1983 (“the 1983 Regulations”) with minor and drafting amendments.\nRegulation 2 prescribes the scale of definitive maps; regulation 3 and Schedule 1 make provision as to the notation to be used on them.\nRegulations 4 and 5 prescribe the form of modification orders and reclassification orders (set out in Schedules 2 and 3 respectively) and regulation 6 contains supplementary provisions.\nRegulation 7 and Schedules 4, 5 and 6 make additional provisions in relation to the making, submission and confirmation of modification and reclassification orders (Schedule 4), set out the prescribed form of notice of these orders (Schedule 5) and prescribe, in relation to certain areas, certain persons who are also to be served with notice (Schedule 6).\nRegulation 8 and Schedules 7, 8 and 9 prescribe the form of application (Schedule 7), of notice of the order (Schedule 8) and of the requisite certificate (Schedule 9).\nRegulation 9 revokes the 1983 Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/12/note",
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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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