{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-dartmoor-designation-order-1994/schedule-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-dartmoor-designation-order-1994/schedule-3.json",
  "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/3",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS—I",
  "text": "As regards any species rich hay meadows which are the subject of an agreement—\n(1) the farmer shall maintain the land and shall not plough, level or reseed. He shall not cultivate the land except by means of a chain harrow or roller but shall not use a chain harrow or roller from 1st April until 15th July inclusive in any year;\n(2) the farmer shall graze with cattle or sheep but not so as to cause poaching, overgrazing or undergrazing, and shall exclude stock before 15th May until the end of cutting in any year;\n(3) the farmer shall cut the grass each year only for hay but shall not cut it before 15th July in any year. At least once in every five years he shall not cut for hay until after 31st July. Where he cuts the grass, the farmer shall remove the cuttings and graze the aftermath;\n(4) the farmer shall not apply any organic or inorganic fertiliser except for farmyard manure. He shall not increase existing application rates of farmyard manure and in any event shall not apply more than 20 tonnes of farmyard manure per hectare in any three year period. He shall apply farmyard manure in a single dressing. He shall not apply any slurry, 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;\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 scrub. Except in the case of bracken control, herbicides used for these purposes shall be applied by means of a wick applicator or by spot treatment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2236",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Dartmoor) Designation (Amendment) Order 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/710/schedule/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."
}