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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-regulations-1996/schedule-3/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-regulations-1996/schedule-3/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3142",
  "legislation_title": "The Arable Area Payments Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application of fertilisers and waste to the set-aside land",
  "text": "If a farmer applies any fertiliser or waste to the set-aside land he shall only do so–\n(a) in accordance with the needs of the specified raw materials being produced on it; and\n(b) in a manner which is consistent–\n(i) where the land is in England and Wales, with the Code of Good Agricultural Practice for the Protection of Water approved by the Water (Prevention of Pollution) (Code of Practice) Order 1991; and\n(ii) where the land is in Scotland, with the provisions of the Code of Good Practice for the Prevention of Environmental Pollution from Agricultural Activity approved by the Water (Prevention of Pollution) (Code of Practice) (Scotland) Order 1992.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/2285, having effect as if approved under section 97 of the Water Resources Act 1991 by virtue of section 2(2) and paragraph 1(1) and (2) of Schedule 2 to the Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 (1991 c. 60)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/395 (S.39)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2969",
      "affecting_title": "The Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2969",
      "affecting_title": "The Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2001/390",
      "affecting_title": "The Abolition of the Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3686",
      "affecting_title": "The Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce (Abolition) Regulations 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3142/schedule/3/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:29:39.754589+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."
}