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The Nitrates Action Programme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 Preliminary

    1. 1.Citation and commencement

    2. 2.Purpose of and application of Regulations

    3. 3.Interpretation

  3. PART 2 General

    1. 4.Duty of the controller to prevent water pollution

    2. 5.Duty of the controller to comply with these Regulations

    3. 6.Exemptions granted by the Department

  4. PART 3 Prevention of water pollution from the application of fertilisers

    1. 7.Periods when the land application of fertiliser is prohibited

    2. 8.Requirements as to the manner of land application of fertiliser to any agricultural land

    3. 9.General measures governing the limits on land application of nitrogen fertiliser

    4. 10.Measures governing the limits on land application of nitrogen fertiliser to grassland

    5. 11.Measures governing the limits on land application of nitrogen fertiliser to land other than grassland

    6. 12.Derogation from the measures governing the limits on land application of livestock manure

    7. 13.Measures governing the limits on land application of organic manures with a high proportion of phosphorus

  5. PART 4 Storage requirements

    1. 14.General obligations as to storage facilities for livestock manure and silage effluent

    2. 15.Obligations as to livestock manure storage capacity on pig and poultry enterprises

    3. 16.Manner of storage of slurry

    4. 17.Manner of storage of farmyard manure and location of storage facilities

    5. 18.Manner of storage of poultry litter and location of storage facilities

    6. 19.Manner of storage of dirty water

    7. 20.Calculation of livestock manure storage capacity

    8. 21.Making and storage of silage

  6. PART 5 Measures relating to land management

    1. 22.Cover in winter

    2. 23.Crop management

    3. 24.Crop management for derogated holdings

  7. PART 6 Record keeping and compliance monitoring

    1. 25.Type of records required

    2. 26.Duty of the controller not to provide false or misleading information

  8. PART 7 Enforcement

    1. 27.Enforcement

    2. 28.Notices

    3. 29.Appeals against notices requiring works etc.

    4. 30.Offences

    5. 31.Penalties

  9. PART 8 Powers, duties and functions of the Departments

    1. 32.Reporting

    2. 33.Reviewing

  10. PART 9 Miscellaneous

    1. 34.Transitional provisions

    2. 35.Consequential amendments

    3. 36.Revocations

  11. Signature

  12. SCHEDULES

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      Criteria for nutrient management

      1. 1.Regulation 12(7) - Criteria as to calculation of phosphorus balance

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      Requirements for slurry storage systems

      1. 1.The requirements which have to be satisfied in relation to...

      2. 2.The base of the slurry storage tank, the base and...

      3. 3.The base and walls of the slurry storage tank, any...

      4. 4.The base and walls of the slurry storage tank and...

      5. 5.(1) Any facilities used for the temporary storage of slurry...

      6. 6.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the capacity of storage facilities...

      7. 7.No part of the slurry storage tank or any effluent...

      8. 8.The slurry storage tank and any effluent tank, channels, pipes...

      9. 9.Where the walls of the slurry storage tank are not...

      10. 10.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), where the slurry storage tank,...

      11. 11.In the case of a slurry storage tank with walls...

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      Requirements for silos

      1. 1.The requirements which have to be satisfied in relation to...

      2. 2.The base of the silo shall, where the silo has...

      3. 3.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the capacity of the effluent...

      4. 4.The base of the silo, the base and walls of...

      5. 5.The base and any walls of the silo, its effluent...

      6. 6.No part of the silo, its effluent tank or channels...

      7. 7.If the silo has retaining walls— (a) the retaining walls...

      8. 8.Subject to paragraph 9, the silo, its effluent tank and...

      9. 9.Where any part of an effluent tank is installed below...

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      Risk assessment for fertiliser application to steeply sloping land

      1. 10.If application of organic manure (including livestock manure) or chemical...

  13. Explanatory Note

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