{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-development-contracts-rural-priorities-scotland-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-development-contracts-rural-priorities-scotland-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2012/307",
  "legislation_title": "The Rural Development Contracts (Rural Priorities) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-development-contracts-rural-priorities-scotland-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment to option 80 (open grazed grassland management for chough)",
  "text": "In option 80 (open grazed grassland management for chough), in column 2—\n(a) in paragraph (2)(i) for “treats livestock” substitute “ensures that livestock must only be treated”;\n(b) in paragraph (2)(j) for “20th June” substitute “30th June” and at the end of that sub‑paragraph omit “and”; and\n(c) in paragraph (2)(k) after “species” insert—\n“; and\n(l) cuts hay and silage, in accordance with any applicable programme guidance, in a manner which minimises the risk of injury to ground nesting birds”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Option 80 was inserted by S.S.I. 2011/106."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/307/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:42:15.071556+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."
}