Paragraph 14 Pesticides, lime and fertiliser on rough grazings and other semi-natural areas

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

Sch. para. 18(2) words inserted by Common Agricultural Policy (Single Farm Payment and Support Schemes and Cross-Compliance) 2009 reg. 17
Sch. Pt. 5 inserted by Common Agricultural Policy (Single Farm Payment and Support Schemes and Cross-Compliance) 2009 reg. 18
sch. para. 11(2)(b) words substituted by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Modifications) 2010 art. 8

A farmer must not apply pesticides, lime or fertiliser to rough grazings and other semi-natural areas, except–

(a)

as approved under the Uncultivated Land and Semi-Natural Areas Regulations;

(b)

in the case of lime or fertiliser, where no conservation damage to the diversity of species in those areas will result;

(c)

in the case of herbicides, to control injurious weeds to which the Weeds Act 1959^f1 applies;

(d)

to control bracken with Asulam or other herbicides approved within the meaning of the Control of Pesticides Regulations 1986^f2 or the Plant Protection Products (Scotland) Regulations 2003^f3; or

(e)

to control other plants, with the prior written consent of the Scottish Ministers.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1959 c. 54.
f2: S.I. 1986/1510, amended by S.I. 1990/2487, 1994/3142 and 1997/188.
f3: S.S.I. 2003/579, amended by S.S.I. 2004/368.