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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-single-payment-and-support-schemes-cross-compliance-england-regulations-2004/schedule/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3196",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) (England) Regulations 2004",
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  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Overgrazing and unsuitable supplementary feeding",
  "text": "(1) If the Secretary of State has given a farmer written directions concerning the management of land which is in her opinion subject to overgrazing or the use of unsuitable supplementary feeding methods, he must comply with those directions on any area of land specified in them.\n(2) On any other land a farmer must not—\n(a) allow overgrazing; or\n(b) use unsuitable supplementary feeding methods.\n(3) In this paragraph—\n“overgrazing” means grazing with so many livestock as to adversely affect the growth, quality or diversity of any self-seeded or self-propagated vegetation characteristic of the area in which the land is situated; and\n“unsuitable supplementary feeding methods” means methods that provide supplementary feed for livestock in a way that adversely affects, through trampling or poaching of land by livestock, or through rutting by vehicles used to transport feed, the quality or diversity of any self-seeded or self-propagated vegetation characteristic of the area in which the land is situated.",
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