{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-waste-grant-nitrate-vulnerable-zones-wales-scheme-2001/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-waste-grant-nitrate-vulnerable-zones-wales-scheme-2001/note.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2001/3709",
  "legislation_title": "The Farm Waste Grant (Nitrate Vulnerable Zones) (Wales) Scheme 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-waste-grant-nitrate-vulnerable-zones-wales-scheme-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Scheme)\nThis Scheme complies with Council Regulation (EC) No. 1257/99 of 17th May 1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund and in particular Articles 4 to 7 which deal with investment in agricultural holdings.\nThis Scheme applies to Wales only.\nIt makes provision for the making of grants in respect of agricultural businesses which are at least partly situated in nitrate vulnerable zones, as defined by regulation 2(1) of the Protection of Water against Agricultural Nitrate Pollution (England and Wales) Regulations 1996.\nThe grant aid is available (at the rate of 40%) towards expenditure (up to a maximum of £85,000) incurred by the agricultural business between the date of coming into force of the substantive part of the Scheme (7th December 2001) and 17th April 2003 in relation to facilities for the handling, storage and disposal of certain farm wastes and the separation of clean and dirty water (paragraph 3).\nA number of restrictions are imposed on the making of grants under the Scheme (paragraph 4).\nThe Scheme indicates how grants are to be claimed (paragraph 5) and enables grant monies to be withheld in certain circumstances (paragraph 6).\nThe Farm Waste Grant (Nitrate Vulnerable Zones) (England and Wales) Scheme 1996 is revoked.\nNo Regulatory Appraisal has been prepared in respect of this Scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2001/3709/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:15:26.706952+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."
}