SCHEDULE 2 MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS IN RELATION TO SET-ASIDE LAND

PART C SPECIAL CONDITIONS APPLYING TO GUARANTEED SET-ASIDE LAND

24 Permitted agricultural production
(1) A farmer may undertake permitted agricultural production on guaranteed set-aside land only to such extent as does not result in overgrazing of that land.
(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above, “overgrazing” means grazing or otherwise stocking land with livestock in such numbers as adversely to affect the growth, quality or species composition of vegetation on that land to a significant degree.