{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/set-aside-amendment-regulations-1990/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/set-aside-amendment-regulations-1990/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1716",
  "legislation_title": "The Set-Aside (Amendment) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/set-aside-amendment-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedules",
  "text": "In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations:\n(a) in the heading, for the words “set-aside land” there shall be substituted “permanent fallow or rotational fallow”;\n(b) for paragraph 1 there shall be substituted the following paragraph:\n“1 (a) The beneficiary shall sow a plant cover immediately after the commencement of the set-aside period unless the crop or plant cover on the land immediately prior to the commencement of the set-aside period consisted of one or more of the following: common wheat, durum wheat, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, millet, canary seed, triticale, lucerne/alfalfa, sainfoin, clover, vetches, grass (whether for grazing or for herbage seed), mustard. If the beneficiary is prevented from establishing a plant cover by exceptional weather conditions, he shall do so as soon as practicable; or\n(b) the beneficiary shall establish a plant cover immediately after the commencement of the set-aside period. If the crop planted in the year prior to the commencement of the set-aside period has not yet been harvested, the plant cover shall be established immediately after the harvest. If the beneficiary is prevented from establishing a plant cover by exceptional weather conditions, he shall do so as soon as practicable. The establishment of a plant cover may take the form of the regeneration of naturally-occurring vegetation.”.\n(c) in paragraph 3(b) after the word “re-established” there shall be inserted the words “by sowing a plant cover”;\n(d) in paragraph 3(c) after the word “established” there shall be inserted the words “by sowing a plant cover”;\n(e) for paragraph 4 there shall be substituted the following paragraph:\n“4 (a) The beneficiary shall cut the plant cover at least twice in every year, such cuts to be taken at intervals of at least 1 month and one such cut to be taken in the period between 30th June and 1st September; or\n(b) the beneficiary shall cut the plant cover at least once in every year; and shall not in either case sell cuttings or use them for feeding livestock.”; and\n(f) in paragraph 13:\n(i) in sub-paragraph (a) the word “and” shall be omitted where it appears the second time; and\n(ii) after sub-paragraph (b) there shall be added the following sub-paragraphs:\n“(c) all existing unimproved grassland, moorland and heath; and\n(d) all existing vernacular buildings and stone walls,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1716/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:08:19.829959+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."
}