{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-pollution-prevention-regulations-2015/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-pollution-prevention-regulations-2015/regulation-27.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/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Record of nitrogen produced by animals on the holding",
  "text": "(1) Before 30th April each year, the occupier of a holding with livestock must record—\n(a) the number of animals on the holding during the previous calendar year and the category for each animal by reference to Schedule 1, and\n(b) the number of days that each animal spent on the holding.\n(2) The occupier must then calculate the amount of nitrogen in the manure produced by the animals on the holding during that year by reference to Schedule 1.\n(3) In the case of permanently housed pigs or poultry, the occupier may (as an alternative to the method referred to in paragraph (2)) use—\n(a) software approved by the Secretary of State, or\n(b) in the case of a system of keeping livestock that only produces solid manure, sampling and analysis in accordance with Part 2 of Schedule 2.\n(4) The occupier must make a record of the calculations and how the final figures were arrived at.\n(5) Where the occupier uses software approved by the Secretary of State, the occupier must keep a printout of the result.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/668/regulation/27",
    "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."
}