{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-exmoor-designation-order-1993/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-exmoor-designation-order-1993/schedule-1/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/83",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-exmoor-designation-order-1993",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "As regards any enclosed unimproved permanent grassland which is the subject of an agreement—\n(1) the farmer shall identify such land and shall maintain it as such for the length of the agreement;\n(2) the farmer shall maintain the land and shall not excavate, plough, level, reseed, chain harrow, roll or otherwise cultivate. He shall not engage in any other form of mechanical operation between 31st March and 1st July in any year;\n(3) the farmer shall not apply inorganic or organic fertiliser;\n(4) the farmer shall not apply lime, slag or any other substance designed to reduce the acidity of the soil;\n(5) the farmer shall graze with livestock but not so as to cause poaching, overgrazing or undergrazing;\n(6) the farmer shall not use fungicides or insecticides;\n(7) the farmer shall not apply herbicides except to control bracken, nettles, 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 weed wiper or by spot treatment;\n(8) the farmer shall not provide supplementary feed without the Minister’s prior written approval.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1302",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/83/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:06:41.963388+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."
}