{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrates-action-programme-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrates-action-programme-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-17.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/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Cover in winter",
  "text": "After harvesting a crop of cereals (other than maize), oil seeds or grain legumes (such as peas or beans) the controller shall ensure that from harvest until 1 March in the following year, one of the following conditions is met on the land at any time:\n(a) the stubble of the harvested crop remains in the land; or\n(b) the land is sown with a crop which will take up nitrogen from the soil; or\n(c) the land is left with a rough surface, ploughed or disced, to encourage the infiltration of rain.",
  "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/17",
    "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."
}