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8.—(1) In each field or part of a field to which any of the options mentioned in paragraph 1(1) or (2) is applied, a farmer is not required to maintain a green cover on the land set aside from production where that green cover is destroyed following the application of herbicide to the land on or after 15th April in the current year.
(2) In respect of each field or part of a field to which any of the options mentioned in paragraph 1(1) or (2) is applied, a farmer shall by virtue of this provision be treated as exempt from a requirement to maintain a green cover where he satisfies the Department that the green cover which he established failed and he could not reasonably have prevented such failure.
(3) The exemptions mentioned in sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) shall apply until –
(a)in the case of the exemption in sub-paragraph (1), the commencement of the following green cover season; and
(b)in the case of the exemption in sub-paragraph (2), the end of the current year.
(4) In each field or part of a field to which any of the options mentioned in paragraph 1(1) or (2) is applied, and in which a farmer has chosen not to establish a green cover on a strip of land pursuant to paragraph 7(2), he need not maintain any green cover which nevertheless subsequently becomes established on that strip.
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