The Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Additional Designations) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2002

Application of the Principal Regulations

9.—(1) Regulations 3(2) (periodic review), 4 (monitoring) and 6(4)(b), (5) and (6) (implementation, periodic review and monitoring of action programmes) of the Principal Regulations shall apply in relation to nitrate vulnerable zones designated by regulation 3(1) of these Regulations.

(2) The Principal Regulations shall be amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 3—

(i) in paragraph (1) (existing nitrate vulnerable zones) for “and deposited” to the end of that paragraph substitute “and deposited in the library of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs at Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR.”;

(ii) in paragraph (2) (periodic review) for “19th December 1997” substitute “19th December 2005”; and

(b) in regulation 7(1) (content of action programmes) for “the parts of the code of good agricultural practice referred to in regulation 5” substitute “paragraphs 284 to 295 of the Water Code Revised 1998 published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1998(1)”.

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