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The Nitrates Action Programme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 Preliminary

    1. 1.Citation and commencement

    2. 2.Territorial application

    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

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

    1. 6.Periods when the land application of nitrogen fertiliser is prohibited

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

    3. 8.Measures governing the limits on land application of nitrogen fertiliser to grassland

    4. 9.Measures governing the limits on land application of nitrogen fertiliser to land other than grassland

    5. 10.Derogation from the measures governing the limits on land application of livestock manure

  5. PART 4 Storage requirements

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

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

    3. 13.Manner of storage of farmyard manure and location of storage facilities

    4. 14.Manner of storage of poultry litter and location of storage facilities

    5. 15.Manner of storage of dirty water

    6. 16.Calculation of livestock manure storage capacity

  6. PART 5 Measures relating to land management

    1. 17.Cover in winter

    2. 18.Crop management

    3. 19.Crop management for derogated holdings

  7. PART 6 Record keeping and compliance monitoring

    1. 20.Type of records required

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

  8. PART 7 Enforcement

    1. 22.Enforcement

    2. 23.Notices

    3. 24.Appeals against notices requiring works etc.

    4. 25.Offences

    5. 26.Penalties

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

    1. 27.Reporting

    2. 28.Reviewing

  10. PART 9 Miscellaneous

    1. 29.Transitional provisions

    2. 30.Consequential amendments

    3. 31.Revocations

  11. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE

      1. PART 1 Criteria as to nutrient management

      2. PART 2 Criteria as to calculation of phosphorus balance

  13. Explanatory Note

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