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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-cross-compliance-scotland-regulations-2014/schedule/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-cross-compliance-scotland-regulations-2014/schedule/paragraph-5.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/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Minimum land management reflecting site specific conditions to limit erosion",
  "text": "(1) A beneficiary must limit the erosion of the banks of watercourses, at watering points or feeding areas, from overgrazing or heavy poaching by livestock.\n(2) In the case of late harvested crops where agronomic or weather conditions prevent the subsequent crop or cover from being sown, a beneficiary must put in place measures to limit soil erosion.\n(3) In this paragraph, “heavy poaching” means the cutting up of turf to a significant degree as a result of trampling by livestock.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in sch. Pt. 2 para 5(1) substituted (15.5.2018) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/122), regs. 1, 14(b)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/325/schedule/paragraph/5",
    "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."
}