{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrates-action-programme-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrates-action-programme-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-14.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/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Manner of storage and location of poultry litter storage facilities",
  "text": "(1) Poultry litter may be stored in a field or midden where land application will take place subject to a maximum limit of 180 days.\n(2) Where poultry litter is stored in a midden it shall have adequate effluent collection facilities prior to field storage or land application.\n(3) Where stored in a field, poultry litter must be stored in a compact heap but not in the same location of a field in consecutive years and must be covered with an impermeable membrane within 24 hours of placement in a field.\n(4) Compact heaps of poultry litter 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 public water supply; or\n(e) 50m of exposed cavernous or karstified limestone features (such as swallow-holes and collapse features).\n(5) In this regulation, poultry litter means a mixture of bedding material and poultry manure arising from the housing of poultry and with a dry matter content not less than 55%.\n(6) This regulation will apply from the operative date of these Regulations until 31 December 2010.",
  "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))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 14 substituted (14.12.2009) by The Nitrates Action Programme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (revoked) 2009 (S.R. 2009/360), regs. 1, 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/489/regulation/14",
    "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."
}