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The Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

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Supplementary feeding

2.—(1) A farmer shall ensure that no supplementary feeding site is located on any part of his land that constitutes part of a semi-natural habitat or a historic monument.

(2) A farmer shall ensure that no supplementary feeding site is located within:

(a)10 metres from a waterway;

(b)50 metres from a borehole; or

(c)250 metres from any borehole currently used to provide water intended for human consumption.

(3) Without prejudice to paragraph 1(1)(a), a farmer shall rotate and manage supplementary feeding sites so as to prevent poaching on his land.

(4) A farmer shall not permit sacrifice areas on land except where the land is improved grassland or arable land and where the gradient of the land does not permit liquid runoff.

(5) Where a sacrifice area is permitted, the land on which it is located shall, either:

(a)be ploughed and sown in the following spring; or

(b)be allowed to regenerate naturally the following spring provided that the land has at least 90% grass coverage by the 31st May in that year.

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