{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-somerset-levels-and-moors-designation-order-1997/schedule-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-somerset-levels-and-moors-designation-order-1997/schedule-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1442",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Somerset Levels and Moors) Designation Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-somerset-levels-and-moors-designation-order-1997",
  "path": "schedule/4",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "ADDITIONAL PROVISION TO WHICH PAYMENTS REFERRED TO IN SCHED ULE 10, PART II, ITEM 3 RELATE",
  "text": "As regards any land which is subject to the agreement but to which neither the provisions of Schedule 2 nor the provisions of Schedule 7 apply, a requirement to the effect that the farmer shall maintain water levels in ditches and rhynes at not lower than 30 centimetres below mean field level from 1st May until 30th November in any given year and shall maintain water levels at or above mean field level (so as to cause conditions of surface splashing) from 1st December in any given year until the following 30th April.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1442/schedule/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:07:34.977368+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."
}