The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (West Penwith) Designation Order 1997

Article 6

Schedule 7 AMENDMENTS TO THE ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREAS (WEST PENWITH) DESIGNATION ORDER 1986

1.  The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (West Penwith) Designation Order 1986(1) is amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Schedule.

2.  In article 2 (interpretation) in paragraph (1) for the definition of “conservation plan” there is substituted the following definition—

“conservation plan” means a plan which the farmer undertakes or has undertaken as part of an agreement to implement within a period of two years, for the carrying out of one or more of the operations specified in Schedule 2 (or in Schedule 5 to the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (West Penwith) Designation Order 1997);

3.  In article 6 (rates of payment under agreement),—

(a) after paragraph (1A) there is inserted the following paragraph—

“(1B) Where an agreement contains the additional provisions specified in Schedule 2 or 3 to the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (West Penwith) Designation Order 1997, the Minister shall make payments for each hectare of land which under the agreement is subject to those additional provisions at the rate per annum of £7 (in the case of Schedule 2 thereto) and £150 (in the case of Schedule 3 thereto).”; and

(b) for paragraph (2) there is substituted the following paragraph—

“(2) Where an agreement includes a conservation plan, the Minister shall also make payments in respect of the operations included in the plan, up to a maximum sum of £100,000 per agreement.”.

(1)

S.I. 1986/2251, amended by S.I. 1992/51, S.I. 1994/933, S.I. 1996/922, S.I. 1996/3104.