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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-south-wessex-downs-designation-order-1993/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-south-wessex-downs-designation-order-1993/schedule-2/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/86",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (South Wessex Downs) Designation Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-south-wessex-downs-designation-order-1993",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Option 3—Conservation Headlands",
  "text": "As regards any strip which is the subject of an agreement–\n(1) the farmer shall not apply insecticides except between 31st August in any year and the following 1st January;\n(2) the farmer shall not apply herbicides other than–\n(a) Tri-allate, diclofop-methyl, difenzoquat, flamprop-M-isopropyl or fenoxapro pethyl;\n(b) Glyphosate, provided that it is applied in the pre-harvest period by spot treatment and solely for the control of couch, black bent or onion couch;\n(c) Fluroxypyr, provided it is applied by spot treatment and solely for the control of cleavers; or\n(d) any other herbicide applied by any method which the Minister may from time to time approve for this purpose;\n(3) the farmer may cultivate and apply herbicides to that part of the strip which adjoins a field boundary where it is desirable so to do in order to maintain a sterile area;\n(4) the farmer shall not roll the strip from 10th April in any year until after the adjoining cereal crop has been harvested.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1309",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (South Wessex Downs) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/3104",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (England) Designation Orders (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1370",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (South Wessex Downs) Designation (Amendment) Order 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1370",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (South Wessex Downs) Designation (Amendment) Order 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1370",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (South Wessex Downs) Designation (Amendment) Order 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "amendment made by S.I. 1996/3104, reg. 3 revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1295",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (England) Designation Orders (Revocation of Specified Provisions) Regulations 1998 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/86/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:06:40.143846+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."
}