The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Machair of the Uists and Benbecula, Barra and Vatersay) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996

Amendment of the principal Order

6.  In article 9 of the principal Order (payments to a common grazings committee for additional agricultural operations) for the words “Such payments” to the end there shall be substituted–

• “Such payments shall be at a rate to be determined by the Secretary of State–

  (a)

  in the case of an agreement entered into on or after 15th August 1996, up to a maximum rate of £60,000 for each 5 year conservation plan; and

  (b)

  in the case of an agreement entered into before that date–

  (i)

  for the year of the 5 year conservation plan included in such agreement which commenced but which had not ended before that date, up to a maximum rate of £12,000 per annum per common grazings committee for that year; and

  (ii)

  for the whole years or remaining whole years of such 5 year conservation plan, up to a maximum rate calculated by multiplying £12,000 by the number of those whole years or remaining whole years.”.