{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-sensitive-areas-amendment-no-2-regulations-1998/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-sensitive-areas-amendment-no-2-regulations-1998/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2138",
  "legislation_title": "The Nitrate Sensitive Areas (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-sensitive-areas-amendment-no-2-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In Schedule 4 (requirements under the premium arable scheme)–\n(a) for the words “regulation 7(b)(ii)” there shall be substituted the words “regulation 7(1)(b)(ii)”;\n(b) for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following two paragraphs–\n“(2) the farmer shall maintain as grassland for as long as any undertaking of his remains extant–\n(a) all permanent grassland on his land within the nitrate sensitive area; and\n(b) any arable land converted to grassland, excluding grass leys, after 31st December 1991;\n(2A) the farmer shall also maintain as grassland, for the duration of any undertaking relating to it, the land converted in accordance with paragraph (1);”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 in force at 30.9.1998, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2138",
      "affecting_title": "The Nitrate Sensitive Areas (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2138/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:20:15.087005+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."
}