Paragraph 18 Application of fertiliser, waste and lime to land which is neither guaranteed set-aside land nor environmental transferred set-aside land

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 2 para. 1(1)(b) word substituted by Arable Area Payments 1997 reg. 10(a)
Sch. 2 para. 11(2) substituted by Arable Area Payments 1997 reg. 10(b)(i)
Sch. 2 para. 13(3)(4) word substituted by Arable Area Payments 1997 reg. 10(b)(ii)
Sch. 2 para. 14(a) words inserted by Arable Area Payments 1997 reg. 10(b)(iii)
Sch. 2 para. 14(a)(i)(ii) revoked by Arable Area Payments 1997 reg. 10(b)(iii)
Sch. 2 para. 18(2) words inserted by Arable Area Payments 1997 reg. 10(b)(iv)
Sch. 2 para. 18(2) words substituted by Arable Area Payments 1997 reg. 10(b)(iv)
Sch. 2 para. 23(1) word inserted by Arable Area Payments 1997 reg. 10(c)
Sch. 2 para. 25(1) substituted by Arable Area Payments 1997 reg. 10(d)
Sch. 2 para. 1(5) substituted by Arable Area Payments 1998 reg. 3(8)(a)
Sch. 2 para. 19 substituted by Arable Area Payments 1998 reg. 3(8)(b)(i)
Sch. 2 para. 20(1) words substituted by Arable Area Payments 1998 reg. 3(8)(b)(ii)(a)
Sch. 2 para. 20(3) inserted by Arable Area Payments 1998 reg. 3(8)(b)(ii)(b)

(1)

A farmer may apply fertilisers to set-aside land if prior to such application he satisfies the Minister that the land is situated in an area known to be used as a feeding area by geese in winter and is to be managed as such an area.

(2)

A farmer may apply organic waste to the set-aside land concerned if that organic waste was produced on land which he farms as a single unit with the set-aside land and he satisfies the Minister, before applying the waste to the land, that he would not otherwise be able to dispose of it satisfactorily.

(3)

A farmer may apply fertiliser to any agricultural parcel of land managed in accordance with paragraph 4 above during the current scheme year where a new green cover is being established in accordance with paragraph 4(1)(c) or (e) above in that scheme year, provided that the total nitrogen content of that fertiliser is not more than 30 kilograms per hectare of the land to which it is applied.

(4)

A farmer shall not store, dump or otherwise dispose of any waste on the set-aside land concerned except that he may store organic waste in a field which forms all or part of the set-aside land where that organic waste is to be applied by him to that field in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) above.

(5)

A farmer may apply lime to set-aside land where that land is to be cropped in the following scheme year.