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1. This Order may be cited as the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stage II) Designation Order 2000 and shall come into force on 5th December 2000.
2.—(1) In this Order—
“agreement” means an agreement made under section 18(3) of the Agriculture Act 1986 as respects agricultural land in any of the areas designated by article 3 and Part 1 of the relevant Schedule, whether made before or after the coming into force of this Order;
“capital activity” means an activity specified in Part 2 of the relevant Schedule;
“conservation plan” means a plan incorporated into an agreement for the carrying out of one or more capital activities within a specified period;
“cultivated land” means land which is regularly ploughed or otherwise cultivated or that is regularly treated with fertilizers;
“grassland” means land on which the vegetation consists primarily of grass species;
“management activity” means an activity specified in Part 3 of the relevant Schedule;
“Minister” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;
“public access route” means a strip of land which is the subject of an agreement and to which access is given to the public;
“woodland” means land used for woodland where that use is ancillary to the farming of land for other agricultural purposes.
(2) In this Order, any reference to an article or Schedule is to an article of, or Schedule to, this Order, and a reference to “the relevant Schedule” means Schedule 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 as the case may be.
(3) Part IV of the relevant Schedule shall have effect for the purpose of interpreting Parts II and III thereof.
3. There are hereby designated as environmentally sensitive areas the areas of land described in Part 1 of Schedules 1 to 5.
4.—(1) Payments to be made by the Minister under an agreement may be made in respect of a capital activity or a management activity.
(2) In the case of agreements made on or after 22nd June 1998, payments may not be made in respect of—
(a)item 12 in Part 3 of Schedule 3; or
(b)items 9 or 10 in Part 3 of Schedule 5.
5.—(1) In the case of a management activity, payments to be made by the Minister under an agreement shall not exceed the rate specified in respect of that activity in column 2 of Part 3 of the relevant Schedule.
(2) Any works which form part of an activity which constitutes both a management activity and a capital activity may by virtue of an agreement be eligible for payment either as part of a management activity or as part of a capital activity, but the agreement, together with any conservation plan incorporated in it, shall not provide for payment to be made on both such bases in respect of the same works.
6. The Orders listed in Schedule 6 are revoked.
Elliot Morley
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
9th November 2000
We consent,
Jim Dowd and Clive Betts
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
13th November 2000
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