# The Nitrate Sensitive Areas (Designation) (Amendment) Order 1990, Article 5: Amendment of the principal Order


In Schedule 1—
(a) for paragraph 1 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“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.”;
(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”;
(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”;
(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
(e) in paragraph 2(b) after the word “more” there shall be inserted the words “nitrogen in the form of”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1187/article/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-sensitive-areas-designation-amendment-order-1990/article-5
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