Paragraph 9 Machinery use for planting or sowing

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

(1)

A farmer must not carry out any cultivation using machinery if–

(a)

water is standing on the surface of the land; or

(b)

the soil is saturated to the point where water is clearly visible when pressure equivalent to a footprint is applied.

(2)

In this paragraph, “cultivation” means cultivation to prepare for planting or sowing.