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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-waste-grant-nitrate-vulnerable-zonesengland-scheme-2003/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-waste-grant-nitrate-vulnerable-zonesengland-scheme-2003/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/562",
  "legislation_title": "The Farm Waste Grant (Nitrate Vulnerable Zones)(England) Scheme 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-waste-grant-nitrate-vulnerable-zonesengland-scheme-2003",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Restrictions on the making of grants",
  "text": "The Secretary of State shall not make a grant under sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 3—\n(a) in respect of any agricultural business which is not at least partly carried out on land situated in a nitrate vulnerable zone;\n(b) unless she is satisfied that the expenditure towards which the grant is to be made will result in some environmental benefit accruing to the nitrate vulnerable zone concerned;\n(c) unless the requirements of Article 5 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1257/1999 are satisfied;\n(d) if the objective of the expenditure, in respect of which an application for grant is made, is an increase in production for which no normal market outlets can be found; or\n(e) where the whole or part of such grant would duplicate assistance provided or to be provided out of monies by:\n(i) the European Community;\n(ii) Parliament; or\n(iii) a body exercising public functions within the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L160, 26.6.1999, p. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/562/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:30:11.713259+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."
}