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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-central-southern-uplands-designation-order-1993/schedule/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-central-southern-uplands-designation-order-1993/schedule/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/996",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Southern Uplands) Designation Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-central-southern-uplands-designation-order-1993",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The farmer shall not apply herbicides, pesticides, lime or fertiliser (including farmyard manure and slurry) to rough grazings, unimproved pasture, reverted improved land, 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), broad leaved dock (rumex obtusifolius) or ragwort (senecio jacobaea) and, with the prior written approval of the Secretary of State, for the control of other plants; and\n(b) lime and farmyard manure may be applied to unimproved pasture and reverted improved land with the prior written approval of the Secretary of State;\nProvided that:\n(i) any herbicides used must be applied by weed wiper, spot treatment, hand spraying, tractor mounted sprayers 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev.in pt.",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1969",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Southern Uplands) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1969",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Southern Uplands) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1969",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Southern Uplands) 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/1993/996/schedule/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:58:33.223129+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."
}