{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-regulations-1995/schedule-2/paragraph-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-regulations-1995/schedule-2/paragraph-24.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1738",
  "legislation_title": "The Arable Area Payments Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-regulations-1995",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/24",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Application of fungicides, insecticides and herbicides to the set-aside land",
  "text": "Subject to paragraph 25 below, a farmer shall not apply herbicide to the set-aside land unless—\n(a) it is of a type which either—\n(i) is absorbed into a plant primarily through the leaves and stem; or\n(ii) has been approved by the Ministers under regulation 5 of the Control of Pesticides Regulations 1986 or under regulations 5, 7, 8 or 11 of the Plant Protection Products Regulations 1995 and its application is not outside the coverage of the uses for which it has been approved,\nand\n(b) such application, if undertaken on guaranteed set-aside land or prior to 15th April in any calendar year on any other form of set-aside land—\n(i) is not likely significantly to damage green cover on the land;\n(ii) is made prior to replacing green cover on the land in accordance with paragraph 16 above;\n(iii) is undertaken using herbicide applied either as a spot treatment or with a wick applicator; or\n(iv) is undertaken in order to create or maintain a strip permitted by paragraph 4 above.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1510."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/887."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1482",
      "affecting_title": "The Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1482",
      "affecting_title": "The Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1482",
      "affecting_title": "The Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1482",
      "affecting_title": "The Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1738/schedule/2/paragraph/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:06:06.588245+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."
}