{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-sensitive-areas-designation-amendment-order-1990/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-sensitive-areas-designation-amendment-order-1990/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1187",
  "legislation_title": "The Nitrate Sensitive Areas (Designation) (Amendment) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-sensitive-areas-designation-amendment-order-1990",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Order",
  "text": "In Schedule 1—\n(a) for paragraph 1 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“1 The farmer shall not apply in a single application inorganic nitrogen fertiliser in excess of that which contains 120 kilograms of nitrogen per hectare.”;\n(b) in paragraph 2(a)(i) for the words after “following year:” there shall be substituted the following: “the amount which contains 25 kilograms of nitrogen per hectare below the economic optimum”;\n(c) in paragraph 2(a)(ii) for the words after “following year:” there shall be substituted the following: “the amount which contains 50 kilograms of nitrogen per hectare below the economic optimum”;\n(d) in paragraph 2(a)(iii) for the words after “in any year:” there shall be substituted the following: “the amount which contains 25 kilograms of nitrogen per hectare below the economic optimum”; and\n(e) in paragraph 2(b) after the word “more” there shall be inserted the words “nitrogen in the form of”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1187/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:19:32.942614+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."
}