{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nutrient-action-programme-regulations-northern-ireland-2019/schedule-6/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2019/81",
  "legislation_title": "The Nutrient Action Programme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nutrient-action-programme-regulations-northern-ireland-2019",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the capacity of storage facilities for slurry of a holding shall be sufficient and adequate to provide for the storage of all the slurry which is likely to require storage on the holding for such period as may be necessary to ensure compliance with these Regulations.\n(2) The matters to which regard is to be had under sub-paragraph (1) are—\n(a) the likely quantities of rainfall (including any fall of snow, hail or sleet) which may fall or drain into the slurry storage tank during the likely maximum storage period;\n(b) the need to make provision for not less than 750 millimetres of freeboard in the case of a tank with walls made of earth and 300 millimetres of freeboard in all other cases; and\n(c) soil quality in the vicinity of the slurry storage tank.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2019/81/schedule/6/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:46:59.794926+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."
}