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The Nitrate Pollution Prevention (Amendment) Regulations 2016

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Amendment of regulation 5 (recommendations and proposals)

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4.  In regulation 5—

(a)in paragraph (3), after “must” insert “, (except where paragraph (3A) applies)”;

(b)after paragraph (3), insert—

(3A) Where the Secretary of State revises or adds to the designation of nitrate vulnerable zones before 1st January 2017, the Secretary of State must—

(a)by 31st December 2016, publish the proposals to revise or add to the designation on the Agency’s website;

(b)by 1st March 2017, send written notice to any person appearing to the Secretary of State to be the owner or occupier of a relevant holding.;

(c)in paragraph (4), after “paragraph (3)(b)” insert “or (3A)(b)”;

(d)for paragraph (4)(a), substitute—

(a)a reference to the page on the Agency’s or Secretary of State’s website on which can be found the Secretary of State’s proposals or, in the case of a notice under paragraph (3A)(b) where the designation has already been revised or added to, the designation,;

(e)in paragraph (5)(b), at the end insert “, or which the Secretary of State has so designated”.

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