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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-argyll-islands-designation-order-1993/schedule/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-argyll-islands-designation-order-1993/schedule/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3136",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Argyll Islands) Designation Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-argyll-islands-designation-order-1993",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The crofter, farmer or common grazings committee shall not apply herbicides, pesticides, lime or fertiliser (including farmyard manure and slurry) to rough grazings, unimproved pasture, reverted improved land, machair and dune grassland, wetlands, water margins, native woodland, amenity woodland and scrub except that–\n(a) herbicides may be applied to control bracken (pteridium aquilinum), spear thistle (cirsium vulgare), creeping or field thistle (cirsium arvense), curled dock (rumex crispus), broadleaved dock (rumex obtusifolius), ragwort (senecio jacobaea), rhododendron and, with the prior written consent of the Secretary of State, for the control of other plants; and\n(i) any herbicides used must be applied by weed wiper, spot treatment, or hand spraying or, with the prior written approval of the Secretary of State, by other methods;\n(ii) in the case of bracken, chemical control shall only be by means of asulam or other chemicals approved, in writing, by the Secretary of State;\n(b) lime and fertiliser may be applied to unimproved pasture and reverted improved land with the prior written approval of the Secretary of State, provided that the level of application does not result in the deterioration or loss of the features of interest.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1966",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Argyll Islands) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1966",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Argyll Islands) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2026/240",
      "affecting_title": "The Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3136/schedule/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:44:38.645361+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."
}