{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-cross-compliance-scotland-regulations-2014/schedule/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-cross-compliance-scotland-regulations-2014/schedule/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2014/325",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy (Cross-Compliance) (Scotland) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-cross-compliance-scotland-regulations-2014",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Protection of groundwater against pollution",
  "text": "(1) A beneficiary must not, when carrying on any agricultural activity—\n(a) cause or permit the direct or indirect discharge into groundwater; or\n(b) do anything likely to cause a direct or indirect discharge into groundwater,\nof any substances or families or groups of substances specified in the lists in the Table in Part 3 of this Schedule, unless it is authorised under the 2018 Regulations and carried out in accordance with that authorisation.\n(2) A beneficiary must, when carrying on any agricultural activity, comply with the requirements of a notice issued under regulation 46 of the 2018 Regulations (regulatory notices) in relation to the direct or indirect discharge into groundwater of any substances or families or groups of substances specified in the lists in the Table in Part 3 of this Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 3(1) substituted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 22 para. 24(b)(iii) (with sch. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 3(2) substituted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 22 para. 24(b)(iv) (with sch. 23)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/325/schedule/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:32:38.581673+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."
}