{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/action-programme-for-nitrate-vulnerable-zones-scotland-amendment-regulations-2013/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/action-programme-for-nitrate-vulnerable-zones-scotland-amendment-regulations-2013/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2013/123",
  "legislation_title": "The Action Programme for Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/action-programme-for-nitrate-vulnerable-zones-scotland-amendment-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 10",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 10 (temporary storage of solid manure) is amended as follows.\n(2) For paragraph (2), substitute—\n“(2) No field heap may be located—\n(a) within 10 metres of any body of surface water;\n(b) within 50 metres of any well, borehole or similar work sunk into underground strata for the purpose of providing a water supply;\n(c) on any area of land that—\n(i) slopes down toward a body of surface water; and\n(ii) has a slope of 12 degrees or more;\n(d) in any area identified on the risk assessment map prepared under regulation 5(4) as being of high risk to the water environment; or\n(e) in any other location where there is a significant risk of nitrogen from the field heap entering a body of surface water.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/123/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:40:04.505618+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."
}