The Nitrate Sensitive Areas (Designation) (Amendment) Order 1990

• Citation: S.I. 1990/1187
• Sections: 6

Section 1 Title, commencement and extent

(1) This Order may be cited as the Nitrate Sensitive Areas (Designation) (Amendment) Order 1990 and shall come into force on the day after this Order is laid.

(2) This Order shall apply to England only.

Section 2 Amendment of the principal Order

The Nitrate Sensitive Areas (Designation) Order 1990 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Order.

Section 3 Amendment of the principal Order

In article 2(1)—

(a) in the definition of “economic optimum” after the word “of” where it first appears there shall be inserted the following: “nitrogen in the form of”; and

(b) in the definition of “farmer” after the word “and” there shall be inserted the following: “who applies to enter or, as the case may be,”.

Section 4 Amendment of the principal Order

In article 5(8), for the word “may” there shall be substituted “shall”.

Section 5 Amendment of the principal Order

In Schedule 1—

(a) for paragraph 1 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

(1) The farmer shall not apply in a single application inorganic nitrogen fertiliser in excess of that which contains 120 kilograms of nitrogen per hectare.

(b) in paragraph 2(a)(i) for the words after “following year:” there shall be substituted the following: “the amount which contains 25 kilograms of nitrogen per hectare below the economic optimum”;

(c) in paragraph 2(a)(ii) for the words after “following year:” there shall be substituted the following: “the amount which contains 50 kilograms of nitrogen per hectare below the economic optimum”;

(d) in paragraph 2(a)(iii) for the words after “in any year:” there shall be substituted the following: “the amount which contains 25 kilograms of nitrogen per hectare below the economic optimum”; and

(e) in paragraph 2(b) after the word “more” there shall be inserted the words “nitrogen in the form of”.

Section 6 Amendment of the principal Order

In paragraph 7 of Schedule 2, for Option C (i) there shall be substituted the following:

(i) The farmer shall not in any period of 12 months apply organic nitrogen fertiliser or inorganic nitrogen fertiliser in excess of that which contains 150 kilograms of nitrogen per hectare.