{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2969",
  "legislation_title": "The Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In Schedule 2 (management requirements in relation to set-aside land)—\n(a) in Part A (management options for set-aside land), in paragraph 1(1)(b), for the word “condition” there shall be substituted the word “conditions”;\n(b) in Part B (general management conditions applying to all set-aside land)—\n(i) in paragraph 11, for sub-paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—\n“(2) In relation to set-aside land situated in Scotland, where a farmer has applied a non-selective herbicide to that set-aside land during the current set-aside period but not earlier than 1st May and not later than 14th July during that period, he shall not subsequently cut any green cover on that set-aside land before 15th July prior to the end of that period.”;\n(ii) in paragraph 13(3) and (4), for “11(4)(a)” there shall be substituted “15(5)(a)”;\n(iii) in paragraph 14(a), after the words “organic farmer” there shall be inserted the words “, at any time on or after 1st July prior to the end of the current set-aside period, and;”, and sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) shall be deleted; and\n(iv) in paragraph 18(2), there shall be inserted at the beginning the words “Throughout the set-aside period”, and for the words “if that organic waste”, to the end of the sub-paragraph, there shall be substituted the following—\n“provided that the organic waste—\n(a) was produced on land which he farms as a single unit with the set-aside land;\n(b) is applied only where there is an existing green cover on the set-aside land; and\n(c) is applied in amounts which will not destroy that green cover.”;\n(c) in Part C (special conditions applying to guaranteed set-aside land), in paragraph 23(1), after the words “period shall”, there shall be inserted the word “be”; and\n(d) in Part D (exception relating to environmental transferred set-aside land), for paragraph 25(1) there shall be substituted—\n“25 (1) Throughout the set-aside period, a farmer may apply organic waste to an agricultural parcel of environmental transferred set-aside land where—\n(a) that waste was created as a result of the maintenance of a tree, hedge, stream or ditch on or immediately adjoining that agricultural parcel;\n(b) there is an existing green cover on that parcel; and\n(c) the amount of organic waste to be applied will not destroy the green cover.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2969/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:41.785238+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."
}