{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/action-programme-for-nitrate-vulnerable-zones-scotland-regulations-2003/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/action-programme-for-nitrate-vulnerable-zones-scotland-regulations-2003/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2003/51",
  "legislation_title": "The Action Programme for Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Scotland) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/action-programme-for-nitrate-vulnerable-zones-scotland-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Monitoring",
  "text": "(1) The occupier shall permit any person authorised by the Scottish Ministers (“the authorised person”), accompanied by such persons as appear to the authorised person to be necessary for the purpose, at all reasonable times, for the purpose of monitoring implementation of the action programme or of assessing its effectiveness in reducing water pollution caused or induced by nitrates from agricultural sources and preventing further such pollution–\n(a) to enter upon land;\n(b) to take samples;\n(c) to install and maintain equipment; or\n(d) to examine all records kept in implementation of the action programme.\n(2) The occupier shall give all reasonable assistance to any person acting by virtue of paragraph (1) above and in particular shall–\n(a) produce for inspection such document or record as may be reasonably required by that person; and\n(b) at the reasonable request of that person, accompany that person in making any inspection of any land.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/51/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:38:22.670848+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."
}