{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-lake-district-designation-order-1993/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-lake-district-designation-order-1993/schedule-2/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/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Option 2 — Pasture",
  "text": "As regards any pasture which is the subject of an agreement—\n(1) the farmer shall observe the requirements of Schedule 1 paragraph 2 except for sub-paragraphs (3) and (4);\n(2) the farmer shall identify land which is pasture and shall maintain it as such for the length of the agreement;\n(3) the farmer shall not apply inorganic or organic fertiliser except farmyard manure which has been produced on his own farm;\n(4) the farmer shall not increase his existing application rates of farmyard manure and shall not in any event apply more than 12.5 tonnes per hectare in any year. He shall make only one application a year;\n(5) the farmer shall not exceed an average stocking level of 0.3 livestock units per hectare in any year and shall not damage the sward by allowing poaching, overgrazing or undergrazing;\n(6) the farmer shall agree in writing in advance with the Minister a grazing regime in respect of areas of pasture which adjoin lakes, ponds or watercourses.",
  "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1363",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Lake District) Designation (Amendment) Order 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1363",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Lake District) Designation (Amendment) Order 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/85/schedule/2/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."
}