{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-prevention-of-pollution-code-of-practice-scotland-order-1997/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1584",
  "legislation_title": "The Water (Prevention of Pollution) (Code of Practice) (Scotland) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-prevention-of-pollution-code-of-practice-scotland-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Code of Practice",
  "text": "The Code of Good Practice for the Prevention of Environmental Pollution from Agricultural Activity of which a copy is to be deposited in each House of Parliament on 25th June 1997 and which is to be issued by the Secretary of State on 25th July 1997, in so far as it is issued for the purpose of–\n(a) giving practical guidance to persons engaged in agriculture with respect to activities that may affect controlled waters; and\n(b) promoting what appears to him to be desirable practices by such persons for avoiding or minimising the pollution of any such waters,\n(being all sections of the Code other than–\n(i) Chapter 10;\n(ii) Chapter 13, paragraphs 2 and 3 and 7 to 9 inclusive;\n(iii) Chapter 14;\n(iv) Chapter 16, paragraphs 1 to 3 inclusive and paragraph 5; and\n(v) Chapter 17)\nis hereby approved.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the definition of “controlled waters” in section 30A(1) of the Control of Pollution Act 1974, inserted by the Water Act 1989, Schedule 23, paragraph 4."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "referred to (approval of ss 5, 6 of code of practice shall cease to have effect)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2001/175",
      "affecting_title": "The Water (Prevention of Pollution) (Code of Practice) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2001"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1584/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:06:36.715825+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."
}