Statutory Instruments with Clear Reports

09 January 2023

SL(6)300 – The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022

Procedure:  Negative

These Regulations amend the 2021 Regulations by deferring the implementation date of the 170kg/ha annual nitrogen holding limit on the spreading of livestock manures, and the associated record keeping requirement, for holdings or part of holdings not previously situated within a nitrate vulnerable zone from 1 January 2023 until 30 April 2023.

The Regulations were made by the Welsh Ministers before they were laid before the Senedd.  The Senedd can annul the Regulations within 40 days (excluding any days when the Senedd is: (i) dissolved, or (ii) in recess for more than four days) of the date they were laid before the Senedd.

Parent Act:  Water Resources Act 1991

Date Made: 8 December 2022

Date Laid: 9 December 2022

Coming into force date: 31 December 2022