{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-sensitive-areas-amendment-no-2-regulations-1998/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-sensitive-areas-amendment-no-2-regulations-1998/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Modification of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Minister shall not accept an application of a kind specified in regulation 3 above unless he is satisfied that the conditions set out in Article 13 of Commission Regulation (EC) (No. 746/96 will be fulfilled as a result of such acceptance.\n(2) Where the Minister has accepted an application of a kind specified in regulation 3 above made by a person specified in regulation 2(1)(b) above, the applicant’s participation in his current scheme, and his obligations and entitlement to aid thereunder, shall end.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 30.9.1998, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L102, 25.4.96, p. 19, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 435/97 (OJ No. L67, 7.3.97, p. 2)."
    }
  ],
  "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/4",
    "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."
}