The Nitrate Sensitive Areas (Designation) Order 1990
Section 112 of the Water Act 1989 (“the 1989 Act”) gives the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (“the Minister”) and the Secretary of State for the Environment (“the Secretary of State”) power, acting jointly, to designate land in England as a nitrate sensitive area where they consider it appropriate to do so with a view to preventing or controlling the entry of nitrate into controlled waters as a result of, or of anything done in connection with, the use of any land for agricultural purposes.