The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stages I–IV) Designation (Amendment) Order 2004

Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 115

AGRICULTURE, ENGLAND

The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stages I–IV) Designation (Amendment) Order 2004

Made

21st January 2004

Laid before Parliament

22nd January 2004

Coming into force

16th February 2004

Whereas, pursuant to section 18(1) of the Agriculture Act 1986(1), the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food designated areas in The Broads, the Pennine Dales, the Somerset Levels and Moors, the South Downs, West Penwith, Breckland, Clun, North Peak, the Suffolk River Valleys, the Test Valley, the Avon Valley, Exmoor, the Lake District, the North Kent Marshes, the South Wessex Downs, South West Peak, the Blackdown Hills, the Cotswold Hills, Dartmoor, the Essex Coast, the Shropshire Hills and the Upper Thames Tributaries as environmentally sensitive areas;

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by section 18(1) and (4)(d)(2) of the said Act, with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:

(1)

1986 c. 49. The expression “the Minister” is defined in section 18(11), as amended by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794), Article 5(1) and Schedule 1, paragraph 29, to mean, in England, the Secretary of State.

(2)

Section 18(4) was amended by S.I. 1994/249.