PART 2CONSERVATION OF NATURAL HABITATS AND HABITATS OF SPECIES

Management agreements

Existing agreements17

1

For the purposes of these Regulations, any agreement made before 1st April 2010 in relation to land in England or Wales which on or after that date becomes land within a European site, or adjacent to such a site, being an agreement made under—

a

section 16 of the 1949 Act M1 (agreements for management of nature reserves),

b

section 15 of the Countryside Act 1968 M2 (areas of special scientific interest), or

c

section 7 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 M3 (management agreements),

has effect upon the designation of the site as if it were a management agreement entered into by Natural England or F1the Natural Resources Body for Wales (as the case may be) under regulation 16.

2

Any other thing done or deemed to have been done under—

a

any provision of Part 3 (nature conservation) of the 1949 Act, or under Part 6 (general, financial and supplementary) of that Act so far as it applies for the purposes of Part 3, or

b

section 15 of the Countryside Act 1968,

in respect of any land prior to that land becoming land within a European site, or adjacent to such a site, continues to have effect as if done under the corresponding provision of these Regulations.

3

Any reference in a relevant enactment to a nature reserve within the meaning of section 15 M4 (meaning of “nature reserve”) of the 1949 Act is to be construed as including a reference to a European site, and in this paragraph “a relevant enactment” means an enactment not contained in, or in an instrument made under, the 1949 Act or the WCA 1981.