{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-pollution-prevention-regulations-2015/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-pollution-prevention-regulations-2015/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/668",
  "legislation_title": "The Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-pollution-prevention-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Restrictions on spreading slurry",
  "text": "(1) Where a person uses equipment to spread slurry by broadcasting, the equipment must—\n(a) have a trajectory of less than 4 metres from the ground, or\n(b) have a trajectory of 4 metres or more from the ground and be able to achieve a maximum slurry application rate of 1 mm per hour when it is operating continuously.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 18(2) omitted (31.12.2016) by virtue of The Nitrate Pollution Prevention (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1254), regs. 1(1), 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/668/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:42:55.288035+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."
}