# Arable Area Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997, Paragraph 24: Permitted agricultural production

Extent: N.I.
Status: prospective

(1) A farmer may undertake permitted agricultural production on guaranteed set-aside land only to such extent as does not result in overgrazing of that land.
(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), “overgrazing” means grazing or otherwise stocking land with livestock in such numbers as adversely to affect the growth, quality or species composition of vegetation on that land to a significant degree.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/477/schedule/2/paragraph/24 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/schedule-2/paragraph-24
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