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  "legislation": "ssi/2003/51",
  "legislation_title": "The Action Programme for Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Scotland) Regulations 2003",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“farm” means farm or livestock unit, and those expressions have same meaning as 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 by regulation 3(1) of the Designation of Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Scotland) Regulations 2002 and regulation 3 of the Designation of Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Scotland) (No.2) Regulations 2002 ;\n“occupier” means a person who occupies a farm all or part of which is in a nitrate vulnerable zone and for the purposes of these Regulations the occupier of a farm shall not cease to be the occupier of the whole of the farm by reason of another agricultural producer using part of the farm;\n“the action programme” means the action programme set out in the Schedule to these Regulations;\n“the 1998 Regulations” means the Action Programme for Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Scotland) Regulations 1998 .",
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  "version": "current",
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      "text": "S.S.I. 2002/276."
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2003/169",
      "affecting_title": "The Action Programme for Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003"
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      "affecting": "ssi/2003/169",
      "affecting_title": "The Action Programme for Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/51/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:38:22.670848+00:00"
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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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