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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-regulations-1995/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-regulations-1995/schedule-2/paragraph-3.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/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Exemptions from the requirement to establish a green cover on set-aside land",
  "text": "(1) A farmer shall by virtue of this provision be treated as having been exempted from the requirement to establish a green cover by the start of the green cover season where he satisfies the Minister that for climatic reasons it was not practicable for there to be such a green cover by that time, in which case he shall establish a green cover as soon as reasonably possible thereafter.\n(2) A farmer shall be exempt from the requirement to establish a green cover on penalty set-aside land and on land in which there was a crop at 1st October prior to the commencement of the set-aside period, in which case the farmer shall either—\n(a) establish and maintain a green cover on that land in accordance with one of the management options referred to in paragraph 1 above; or\n(b) not sow a green cover, in which case he shall—\n(i) maintain throughout the green cover season any natural cover which develops on that land, except to the extent that a circumstance in paragraph 4 or paragraph 11(1) below applies; and\n(ii) prior to the end of the green cover season, carry out no operation affecting the surface of the land except for discing or shallow cultivating it.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1482",
      "affecting_title": "The Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
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      "affecting_title": "The Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
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      "affecting_title": "The Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
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      "affecting_title": "The Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1738/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}