The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Cambrian Mountains) Designation (Amendment) Order 1992

Amendments of the principal Order

3.—(1) The principal Order shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs (2) to (7) of this article.

(2) In article 2(1) (interpretation)

(a) there shall be inserted immediately after the definition of “hay meadow” the following definition–

““heather” means vegetation consisting of Calluna vulgaris, Erica tetralix or Erica cinerea;”;

(b) the definition of “the Schedule” shall be deleted.

(3) In article 3 (designation of environmentally sensitive area) for “Plas Crug, Aberystwyth, Dyfed, SY23 1NG” there shall be substituted “Trawsgoed, Aberystwyth, Dyfed, SY23 4HT”.

(4) In article 4 (a) and (b) (requirements to be included in agreement) for “the Schedule” there shall be substituted “Schedule 1 to this Order”.

(5) In article 5(a) (provision as to breach of the requirements to be included in agreement) the word “civil” shall be omitted.

(6) For article 6 (rates of payment under agreement) there shall be substituted the following article–

“Rates of payment under agreement

6.— (1) Subject to paragraphs (2) below, payments made by the Secretary of State under an agreement shall be at the rate of–

(a) £30 per annum for each hectare of semi-natural rough grazings to which the agreement relates;

(b) £50 per annum for each hectare of hay meadow to which the agreement relates; and

(c) £70 per annum for each hectare of broadleaved woodland to which the agreement relates.

(2) Where an agreement includes the additional provisions specified in Schedule 2 to this Order, payments made by the Secretary of State shall be at the rate of–

(a) £41 per annum for each hectare of semi-natural rough grazings which includes heather and which under the agreement is subject to the additional provisions specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order;

(b) £105 per annum for each hectare of land which is broadleaved woodland and which under the agreement is subject to the additional provisions specified in paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to this Order.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4) below, where an agreement includes one or more of the conservation plan operations specified in Schedule 3 to this Order, the Secretary of State shall also make payments, in respect of the aggregate of the operations so specified which are included in the agreement, at a rate not exceeding £120 per annum for each hectare of land to which the agreement relates.

(4) The payments under paragraph (3) above shall not exceed a maximum of £4,000 per agreement.”.

(7) For the Schedule to the principal Order there shall be substituted the Schedules set out in the Schedule to this Order.