The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Clwydian Range) Designation (Amendment) Order 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/973
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Title and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Clwydian Range) Designation (Amendment) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st May 1997.

Section 2 Amendment of the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Clwydian Range) Designation Order 1994

(1) The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Clwydian Range) Designation Order 1994 shall be further amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this article.

(2) In paragraph (1) of article 2 (interpretation)—

(a) in the definition of the word “bank”, for the word “or” where it occurs immediately after the word “stone”, there shall be substituted the word “and”;

(b) after the definition of “conservation headland” there shall be added the following definition—

“conservation plan” means a plan for the carrying out of one or more of the operations specified in Schedule 4 which the farmer undertakes, as part of an agreement, to implement within a period of two years;

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

(a) in subparagraph (e) of paragraph (3), for “£35” there shall be substituted “£55”.

(b) in paragraph (4)—

(i) in subparagraph (a), for “£20” there shall be substituted “£30”;

(ii) in subparagraph (c), for “£25” there shall be substituted “£30”;

(iii) in subparagraph (e), for “£90” there shall be substituted “£150”;

(iv) in subparagraph (f), for “£50” there shall be substituted “£90”;

(v) in subparagraph (g), for “£70” there shall be substituted “£125”;

(vi) in subparagraph (h), for “£80” there shall be substituted “£125”.

(c) for paragraph (6) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

(6) Where an agreement includes a conservation plan, the Secretary of State shall also make payments in respect of operations included in the plan, subject to a maximum of £20,000 for that agreement.

(d) paragraph (7) shall be deleted.

(4) In paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 (conservation plan operations) the word “traditional”, where it occurs before the word “farm”, shall be deleted and the words “using traditional materials” shall be inserted after the word “buildings”.

Section 3 Saving

Paragraph (3) of article 2 of this Order shall not apply in respect of any annual payment to a farmer which relates wholly or in part to any period before 1st May 1997.