Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006

Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (c. 69)

94 (1) Amend section 50 (payments under certain agreements offered by authorities) as follows.

(2) In subsection (1), in paragraph (a), for “the Nature Conservancy Council offer to enter into an agreement under” substitute “Natural England or the Countryside Council for Wales offer to enter into a nature reserve agreement or an SSSI agreement or an agreement under”.

(3) In subsection (3), omit “(or, in Scotland, an arbiter)” and “(or, in Scotland, the arbiter's)”.

(4) In subsection (4), at the end insert—

““nature reserve agreement” has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the 1949 Act;

“SSSI agreement” has the same meaning as in section 15A of the 1968 Act.”