{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-control-of-agricultural-pollution-wales-regulations-2021/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-control-of-agricultural-pollution-wales-regulations-2021/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2021/77",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-control-of-agricultural-pollution-wales-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Application of livestock manure – total nitrogen limit for the whole holding",
  "text": "(1) The occupier of a holding must ensure that, in any year beginning 1 January, the total amount of nitrogen in livestock manure applied to the holding, whether directly by an animal or by spreading, does not exceed 170 kg multiplied by the area of the holding in hectares.\n(2) The amount of nitrogen produced by livestock must be calculated in accordance with Schedule 1.\n(3) In calculating the area of the holding for the purposes of ascertaining the amount of nitrogen permitted to be spread on the holding, no account is taken of surface waters, any hardstanding, buildings, roads or any woodland unless that woodland is used for grazing.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) substituted (31.10.2023) by The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1070), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 4(4) omitted (31.10.2023) by virtue of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1070), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.4.2021, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2021/77/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:41:32.369257+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."
}