{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/action-programme-for-nitrate-vulnerable-zones-england-and-wales-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1202",
  "legislation_title": "The Action Programme for Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (England and Wales) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/action-programme-for-nitrate-vulnerable-zones-england-and-wales-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the enforcement authority” means the Environment Agency;\n“farm” includes livestock unit and has the same meaning which it has in Annex III, paragraph 2, of Council Directive 91/676/EEC concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources;\n“nitrate vulnerable zone” means any area designated as a nitrate vulnerable zone in accordance with regulation 3 of the Protection of Water against Agricultural Nitrate Pollution (England and Wales) Regulations 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Environment Agency was established by section 1 of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L.375, 31.12.91, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/888."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (W)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2003/1852",
      "affecting_title": "The Action Programme for Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1202/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:31:11.411756+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."
}