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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-dartmoor-designation-order-1994/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/710",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Dartmoor) Designation Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-dartmoor-designation-order-1994",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "As regards all low-input permanent grassland which is the subject of an agreement—\n(1) the farmer shall maintain the land and shall not plough, level or reseed. The farmer shall not cultivate except by means of a chain harrow or roller;\n(2) the farmer shall not graze with livestock so as to cause poaching, overgrazing or undergrazing;\n(3) the farmer shall not increase existing application rates of inorganic fertiliser and in any event shall not apply more than 50 kg of nitrogen, 25 kg of phosphate and 25 kg of potash per hectare per year;\n(4) the farmer shall not apply any organic fertiliser except for farmyard manure or slurry. He shall not increase existing application rates of farmyard manure or slurry and in any event shall not apply more than 25 tonnes per hectare per year. He shall not apply any pig or poultry manure or sewage sludge;\n(5) the farmer shall not apply any lime, slag or any other substance designed to reduce the acidity of the soil without the Minister’s prior written approval;\n(6) the farmer shall not apply any fungicides or insecticides;\n(7) the farmer shall not apply any herbicides except to control bracken, spear thistle, creeping or field thistle, curled dock, broadleaved dock or ragwort or to carry out stump treatment of cleared scrub. Except in the case of bracken, herbicides used for these purposes shall be applied by wick applicator or by spot treatment;\n(8) where before the start of the agreement the farmer cuts the grass for hay, he shall continue to do so and shall graze the aftermath.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
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    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Dartmoor) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2110",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Dartmoor) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996"
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    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2236",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Dartmoor) Designation (Amendment) Order 1999"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/710/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:37:14.689476+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."
}