The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Preseli) Designation (Amendment No. 2) Order 1997

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 2868

AGRICULTURE

WALES

The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Preseli) Designation (Amendment No. 2) Order 1997

Made

2nd December 1997

Laid before Parliament

15th December 1997

Coming into force

5th January 1998

Whereas pursuant to section 18(1) of the Agriculture Act 1986(1) the Secretary of State has by Order designated an area in the County of Pembrokeshire as an environmentally sensitive area;

Now therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 18(1) and (4) of the said Act, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the consent of the Treasury hereby makes the following Order:—

Title and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Preseli) Designation (Amendment No. 2) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 5th January 1998.

Amendment of the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Preseli) Designation Order 1994

2.—(1) The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Preseli) Designation Order 1994(2) shall be further amended in accordance with the following paragraph of this article.

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

(i) for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(b) £60 per annum for each hectare of enclosed semi-natural rough grazings which do not include heather;”;

(ii) after sub-paragraph (b) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(bb) £35 per annum for each hectare of enclosed partially improved grassland or enclosed unimproved grassland;”.

Saving

3.  Paragraph (2) 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 5 January 1998.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Win Griffiths

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

9th November 1997

We consent,

Bob Ainsworth

Jim Dowd

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

2nd December 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Preseli) Designation Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/239) which designated an area in the County of Pembrokeshire as an environmentally sensitive area, in compliance with Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2078/92 (OJ No. L215, 30.7.92, p.85) on agricultural production methods compatible with the requirements of the protection of the environment and the maintenance of the countryside.

The Order amends the rates of payments in relation to enclosed partially improved grassland or enclosed unimproved grassland to be made by the Secretary of State pursuant to a management agreement made under section 18(3) of the Agriculture Act 1986.

No Compliance Cost Assessment in relation to this Order has been prepared.

(1)

1986 c. 49; section 18(11) defines “the Minister” and section 18(4) was amended by S.I. 1994/249.

(2)

S.I. 1994/239, amended by S.I. 1995/242, S.I. 1996/3077 and S.I. 1997/974.