{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-somerset-levels-and-moors-designation-order-1997/schedule-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-somerset-levels-and-moors-designation-order-1997/schedule-7.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/7",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS TO WHICH PAYMENTS REFERRED TO IN SCHEDULE 10, PART II, ITEM 6 RELATE",
  "text": "As regards any land which is subject to the agreement, requirements to the effect that–\n(a) the farmer shall not carry out any mechanical operations on the land between 31st March and 1st July in any given year;\n(b) the farmer shall not apply to the land slurry or inorganic fertiliser and shall not increase existing application rates of organic fertiliser, and he shall not apply to the land farmyard manure except manure which has been produced on his farm and shall not apply more than 25 tonnes per hectare per year;\n(c) the farmer shall not graze the land before 20th May in any given year and shall graze it only with cattle thereafter, and in so grazing the land he shall not exceed a grazing density of one animal per 0.75 hectares from 20th May until 8th July in any given year and in any event he shall not graze the land in such a manner as to cause poaching, overgrazing or undergrazing;\n(d) the farmer shall not make silage and, where land has not been used solely for grazing, the farmer shall mow at least one third of the area of land each year (or shall mow the whole of the area during one year in every three years) but shall not do so before 8th July in any given year and shall not graze the land before laying it up;\n(e) the farmer shall not cut or top the grass after 31st August in any given year;\n(f) the farmer shall not use herbicides to control creeping buttercup;\n(g) the farmer shall, unless agreed in writing with the Minister otherwise, maintain water levels in ditches and rhynes at not more 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/7",
    "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."
}