{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crop-residues-burning-regulations-1993/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crop-residues-burning-regulations-1993/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1366",
  "legislation_title": "The Crop Residues (Burning) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crop-residues-burning-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Prohibition on burning",
  "text": "No person engaged in agriculture shall, on agricultural land, burn any crop residue of a kind specified in Schedule 1 unless the burning is for the purposes of–\n(a) education or research;\n(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();\n(c) the disposal of straw stack remains or broken bales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/1320."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1366/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:56:02.403394+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."
}