Paragraph 4 Burning of crop residues

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

Sch. para. 3(1)(c)(iv) words inserted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(e)(i)
Sch. para. 3(1)(c)(iv)(bb) words substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(e)(ii)
Sch. para. 13(5)(b) words substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(f)
Sch. para. 16(1)(a) word substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(g)

A farmer must not, on agricultural land, burn any crop residue of a kind specified in Schedule 1 to the Crop Residues (Burning) Regulations 1993^f1 unless the burning is for the purposes of—

(a)

education or research;

(b)

disease control or the elimination of plant pests where a notice has been served under article 22 of the Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1993^f2; or

(c)

the disposal of straw stack remains or broken bales.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1993/1366.
f2: S.I. 1993/1320, amended numerous times, most recently by S.I. 2004/2365.