{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-the-broads-designation-order-1997/schedule-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-the-broads-designation-order-1997/schedule-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1440",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (The Broads) Designation Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-the-broads-designation-order-1997",
  "path": "schedule/4",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS TO WHICH PAYMENTS REFERRED TO IN SCHEDULE 9, PART II, ITEM 3 RELATE",
  "text": "As regards any grassland subject under the agreement to the requirements set out in Schedule 2 or Schedule 3, requirements to the effect that—\n(a) the farmer shall agree with the Minister a plan of water management for the creation, reinstatement and management of foot drains and grips;\n(b) the farmer shall—\n(i) ensure that water is maintained in the dykes at not more than 30 centimetres below marsh level between 15th March and 31st August in any given year; and\n(ii) shall begin to raise water levels to their summer maximum no later than 15th February in any given year;\n(c) the farmer shall not apply any fertiliser or manure to the grassland;\n(d) the farmer shall not exceed a grazing density of one bovine animal per 0.75 hectare of the grassland between 1st April and 31st May in any given year; and\n(e) the farmer shall not graze the land with sheep between 1st June and—\n(i) 31st December, where the requirements of Schedule 2 apply to that land; and\n(ii) 31st October, where the requirements of Schedule 3 apply to that land,\nin any given year.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1440/schedule/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:07:36.580904+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."
}