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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1

    1. 1.Citation, commencement and extent

    2. 2.Revocations and savings

    3. 3.Interpretation

  3. PART 2

    1. 4.General application and duties

    2. 5.Fertiliser and manure management plan

    3. 6.Storage of livestock manure and silage effluent

    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 livestock manure (other than slurry)

    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. 14A.Application for a derogation from the annual farm limit of nitrogen in livestock manure

    13. 14B.Conditions of a derogation from the annual farm limit of nitrogen in livestock manure

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

    15. 16.Application of nitrogen fertiliser

    16. 17.Application of chemical fertiliser

    17. 18.Application of organic manure

    18. 19.Closed period for chemical fertilisers

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

    20. 21.Closed periods – quantitative restrictions

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

    22. 23.Minimum period between applications of livestock manure

    23. 24.Restriction on method of application of slurry

  4. 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.

  5. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      Calculation of nitrogen (‘N’) and phosphate (‘P2O5’) 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

  7. Explanatory Note