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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-vulnerable-zones-grants-scotland-scheme-2003/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-vulnerable-zones-grants-scotland-scheme-2003/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2003/52",
  "legislation_title": "The Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Grants) (Scotland) Scheme 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-vulnerable-zones-grants-scotland-scheme-2003",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Scheme–\n“application” means an application for a grant under this Scheme by a person made in accordance with paragraph 3 and “applicant” shall be construed accordingly;\n“farmyard manure” means a mixture of livestock manure and bedding material which can be stored as a solid and which is not capable of being pumped as a semi solid or liquid;\n“nitrate vulnerable zone” has the same meaning as in the Action Programme for Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Scotland) Regulations 2003;\n“slurry” means–\n(a) excreta, including any liquid fraction, produced by livestock whilst in a yard or building; or\n(b) a mixture consisting wholly of or containing such excreta, bedding, feed residues, rainwater and washings from a building or yard used by livestock, dungsteads or middens, high level slatted buildings and weeping wall structures or any combination of these, provided such excreta is present,\nof a consistency that allows it to be pumped or discharged by gravity at any stage in the handling process.\n(2) In this Scheme, any reference to–\n(a) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph in this Scheme so numbered;\n(b) a numbered sub-paragraph (with no corresponding reference to a specific paragraph) is a reference to the sub paragraph so numbered in the paragraph in which that reference appears.\n(3) A reference in this Scheme to anything done in writing or produced in written form includes a reference to an electronic communication, as defined in the Electronic Communications Act 2000, which has been recorded and is consequently capable of being reproduced.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2003/51."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2000 c. 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/52/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:38:21.935842+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."
}