The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stage III) Designation (Amendment) Order 2001

Title and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stage III) Designation (Amendment) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 15th October 2001.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order “the principal Order” means the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stage III) Designation Order 2000(1).

Amendment of the principal Order

3.—(1) Article 4(2)(b) of the principal Order shall be amended by the substitution of “16” for the figure “15”, and of “2” for the figure “5”.

(2) Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the principal Order shall be amended, in column 2, by the substitution—

(a) in item 1, of “35” for the figure “25”;

(b) in item 2, of “135” for the figure “110”;

(c) in item 3, of “50” for the figure “45”;

(d) in item 4, of “40” for the figure “35”;

(e) in item 5, of “330” for the figure “295”;

(f) in item 6(a), of “300” for the figure “265”; and

(g) in item 6(b), of “425” for the figure “400”.

(3) Part 3 of Schedule 2 to the principal Order shall be amended as follows—

(a) in item 1, by the substitution in column 2 of “16” for the figure “14”;

(b) in item 2, by the substitution in column 2 of “19” for the figure “18”;

(c) in item 3, by the substitution in column 2 of “31” for the figure “30”;

(d) in item 4, by the substitution in column 2 of “40” for the figure “38”;

(e) in item 5, by the substitution in column 2 of “12” for the figure “10”;

(f) in item 11—

(i) by the substitution for the entry in column 1 of the words—

“11.   Management of woodland to enhance its nature conservation and landscape value.”; and

(ii) in column 2, by deleting the figure “14”;

(g) in item 15, by the substitution in column 2 of “£0.24 per metre” for “£24 per metre”; and

(h) in item 16, by the substitution in column 2 of “25” for the figure “27”.

(4) For Part 3 of Schedule 3 to the principal Order there shall be substituted Part 3 as set out in Schedule 1 to this Order.

(5) Part 3 of Schedule 4 to the principal Order shall be amended, in column 2, by the substitution—

(a) in item 2, of “290” for the figure “230”; and

(b) in item 3(a), of “275” for the figure “265”.

(6) Part 3 of Schedule 5 to the principal Order shall be amended, in column 2, by the substitution—

(a) in item 1, of “11” for the figure “10”;

(b) in item 2, of “42” for the figure “40”;

(c) in item 3, of “65” for the figure “60”;

(d) in item 6, of “60” for the figure “65”; and

(e) in item 10, of “35” for the figure “38”.

(7) Schedule 6 shall be amended by the substitution—

(a) in Part 2, for “Restoration of ponds.”, of the words “The creation or restoration of ponds.”; and

(b) for Part 3, of Part 3 as set out in Schedule 2 to this Order.

Elliot Morley

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

19th September 2001

We consent,

Tony McNulty

Gordon Brown

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

20th September 2001