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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-schemes-cross-compliance-scotland-regulations-2004/schedule/paragraph-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-schemes-cross-compliance-scotland-regulations-2004/schedule/paragraph-14.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2004/518",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy Schemes (Cross-Compliance) (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-schemes-cross-compliance-scotland-regulations-2004",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Pesticides, lime and fertiliser on rough grazings and other semi-natural areas",
  "text": "A farmer must not apply pesticides, lime or fertiliser to rough grazings and other semi-natural areas, except–\n(a) as approved under the Uncultivated Land and Semi-Natural Areas Regulations;\n(b) in the case of lime or fertiliser, where no conservation damage to the diversity of species in those areas will result;\n(c) in the case of herbicides, to control injurious weeds to which the Weeds Act 1959 applies;\n(d) to control bracken with Asulam or other herbicides approved within the meaning of the Control of Pesticides Regulations 1986 or the Plant Protection Products (Scotland) Regulations 2003; or\n(e) to control other plants, with the prior written consent of the Scottish Ministers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1959 c. 54."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1510, amended by S.I. 1990/2487, 1994/3142 and 1997/188."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2003/579, amended by S.S.I. 2004/368."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2009/391",
      "affecting_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy (Single Farm Payment and Support Schemes and Cross-Compliance) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2009/391",
      "affecting_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy (Single Farm Payment and Support Schemes and Cross-Compliance) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2010/222",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/518/schedule/paragraph/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:28:35.642257+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."
}