{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-lake-district-designation-order-1993/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-lake-district-designation-order-1993/schedule-1/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/85",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Lake District) Designation Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-lake-district-designation-order-1993",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "As regards any inbye land which is the subject of an agreement—\n(1) the farmer shall maintain the land and shall not plough, level or reseed without the Minister’s prior written approval;\n(2) the farmer shall not harrow, roll or otherwise cultivate pasture between 14th March and 1st August in any year. He shall cultivate meadowland only with a chain harrow or roller and shall do so as soon as possible after stock have been removed in the spring, or otherwise in the autumn;\n(3) the farmer shall not increase existing application rates of organic or inorganic fertiliser and in any event shall not apply more than 125 kilogrammes of nitrogen per hectare per year;\n(4) the farmer shall not apply farmyard manure or slurry except manure or slurry which has been produced on his own farm and in any event shall apply slurry only to fields on which it has previously been applied;\n(5) the farmer shall not apply pig or poultry manure without the Minister’s prior written approval;\n(6) the farmer shall not apply lime, slag or any other substance designed to reduce the acidity of the soil without the Minister’s prior written approval;\n(7) the farmer shall not use fungicides or insecticides;\n(8) the farmer shall not apply herbicides except to control bracken, nettles, spear thistle, creeping or field thistle, curled dock, broadleaved dock or ragwort. Except in the case of bracken, herbicides used for these purposes shall be applied by weed wiper or by spot treatment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1301",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Lake District) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/85/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:06:40.848326+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."
}