{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-suffolk-river-valleys-designation-order-1993/schedule-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-suffolk-river-valleys-designation-order-1993/schedule-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/458",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Suffolk River Valleys) Designation Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-suffolk-river-valleys-designation-order-1993",
  "path": "schedule/2",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS—I (LOW INPUT GRASSLAND)",
  "text": "As regards any permanent grassland or reverted grassland which is the subject of an agreement–\n(1) where land is on the flood plain or is naturally wet, the farmer shall–\n(a) ensure that the water level in dykes and ditches is not more than 45 centimetres below marsh level between 31st March and 31st October in any year;\n(b) ensure that the depth of water in dykes and ditches is not less than 30 centimetres between 31st October in any year and the following 1st March; and\n(c) begin to raise water levels no later than 1st March in any year;\n(2) the farmer shall not carry out mechanical operations between 1st April and 16th July in any year;\n(3) the farmer shall not graze land which lies on the flood plain or which is naturally wet with livestock between 1st April and 15th May in any year;\n(4) the farmer shall not top the sward or cut for hay or silage before 16th July in any year;\n(5) the farmer shall not apply any organic or inorganic fertiliser except farmyard manure produced on his own farm. He shall not apply slurry, pig or poultry manure or sewage sludge. He shall not increase his existing application rate of farmyard manure and in any event shall not apply more than 12.5 tonnes per hectare per year. He shall not make any applications of manure between 1st April and 16th July in any year and outside this period shall apply it only in a single dressing;\n(6) the farmer shall not apply lime, slag or any substance designed to reduce the acidity of the soil;\n(7) the farmer shall restrict supplementary feeding of livestock to areas agreed in advance with the Minister;\n(8) within two years from the start of the agreement, the farmer shall agree in writing with the Minister a plan for ditch and dyke maintenance and shall begin to implement it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1310",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Suffolk River Valleys) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1372",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Suffolk River Valleys) Designation (Amendment) Order 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/458/schedule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:03:48.748506+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."
}