{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrates-action-programme-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrates-action-programme-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/489",
  "legislation_title": "The Nitrates Action Programme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrates-action-programme-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Manner of storage and location of farmyard manure storage facilities",
  "text": "(1) Prior to field storage or land application farmyard manure should be stored in a midden which shall have adequate effluent collection facilities.\n(2) Farmyard manure may be stored in the field where land application will take place subject to a maximum limit of 180 days.\n(3) Where stored in a field, farmyard manure must not be stored in the same location of the field in consecutive years.\n(4) Farmyard manure must be stored in a compact heap and such heaps must not be placed within:\n(a) 50m of lakes; or\n(b) 20m of any waterway, including open areas of water, open field drains or any drain which has been backfilled to the surface with permeable material such as stone/aggregate; or\n(c) 50m around a borehole, spring or well; or\n(d) 250m from any borehole used for a public water supply; or\n(e) 50m of exposed cavernous or karstified limestone features (such as swallow-holes and collapse features).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (1.1.2011) by The Nitrates Action Programme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/411), regs. 1, 31(1)(a) (with reg. 29(1)(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/489/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:43:57.197532+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."
}