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Scottish Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 298

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGRICULTURE

WATER

The Action Programme for Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Scotland) Regulations 2008

Made

4th September 2008

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

8th September 2008

Coming into force

1st January 2009

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

Go to Preamble

  1. PART 1

    1. 1. Citation, extent and commencement

    2. 2. Revocations and savings

    3. 3. Interpretation

  2. PART 2

    1. 4. General application and duties

    2. 5. Fertiliser and manure management plan

    3. 6. Storage of livestock manure

    4. 7. Storage of slurry from housed pigs and housed cattle and manure from housed poultry

    5. 8. Exclusions from storage capacity

    6. 9. Storage of solid manure

    7. 10. Temporary storage of solid manure

    8. 11. Exemptions from regulations 6(1), 7(1) and 20

    9. 12. Maximum application of nitrogen fertiliser

    10. 13. Minimum nitrogen available to crop from livestock manure

    11. 14. Annual farm limit of nitrogen in livestock manure

    12. 15. Annual field limit of nitrogen in organic manure

    13. 16. Application of nitrogen fertiliser

    14. 17. Application of chemical fertiliser

    15. 18. Application of organic manure

    16. 19. Closed period for chemical fertilisers

    17. 20. Closed periods for organic manure with high available nitrogen content

    18. 21. Closed periods – quantitative restrictions

    19. 22. Closed periods for spreading on bare ground and stubble

    20. 23. Minimum period between applications of livestock manure

    21. 24. Restriction on method of application of slurry

  3. PART 3

    1. 25. Records to be kept

    2. 26. Records to be retained

    3. 27. Inspections

    4. 28. Serving of notices

    5. 29. Appeals against notices

    6. 30. Offences – general

    7. 31. Offences by directors, etc.

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      Calculation of nitrogen in livestock manure

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      Quantity of cleaning water used by livestock (quantities in litres)

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      Calculation of maximum nitrogen application to crops

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      Maximum quantities of organic manure with high available nitrogen content which may be applied during periods set out in regulation 21

Go to Explanatory Note

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

(1)

1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by Schedule 8, paragraph 15(3) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46), and the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) (“the 2006 Act”), section 27(1). The functions conferred on the Minister of the Crown under section 2(2) were, so far as within devolved competence, transferred to the Scottish Ministers by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the 2006 Act. Back [1]

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