{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-pollution-prevention-regulations-2015/regulation-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-pollution-prevention-regulations-2015/regulation-34.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/34",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Keeping records up to date",
  "text": "(1) Where the size of a holding changes, the occupier of the holding must update the record required by regulation 35(1) of the old Regulations, or by regulation 25A of these Regulations, within one month.\n(2) Paragraph (1) applies only in so far there is a change in the area of the land on the holding that is not covered by a greenhouse.\n(3) Where the amount of storage capacity of a holding changes, the occupier of the holding must update the record required by regulation 36(1)(b) of the old Regulations, or by regulation 25B of these Regulations, within one week.\n(4) If the occupier of a holding introduces animals on to the holding for the first time, the occupier must, within one month of the introduction of the animals, calculate and record—\n(a) the amount of manure that will be produced by the number of animals expected to be kept in a building or on hardstanding during the storage period (as defined by regulation 25), using the figures given in Schedule 1,\n(b) the amount of storage capacity (in slurry vessels and hardstanding) required to enable compliance with regulation 25, taking into account—\n(i) the amount of manure intended to be exported from the holding,\n(ii) the amount of manure intended to be spread on land that has a low run-off risk, and\n(iii) in the case of a slurry vessel, the amount of liquids other than slurry likely to enter the vessel, and\n(c) the current storage capacity of the holding.\n(5) The references in paragraphs (1) and (3) to the old regulations are references to the Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations 2008.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 34(1) substituted (31.12.2016) by The Nitrate Pollution Prevention (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1190), regs. 1(1), 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 34(3) substituted (31.12.2016) by The Nitrate Pollution Prevention (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1190), regs. 1(1), 7(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/2349."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/668/regulation/34",
    "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."
}