The Set-Aside (Amendment) Regulations 1990

Definitions

4.  In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations–

(a) before the definition of “agriculture” there shall be inserted the following definition:

““Agricultural Land Tribunal” means an Agricultural Land Tribunal established under Part V of the Agriculture Act 1947(1);”;

(b) in the definition of “designated maps”–

(i) in sub-paragraph (a), for the address “Great Westminster House, Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 2AE” there shall be substituted the following address “Ergon House, 17 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HX”; and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (c), for the address “Chesser House, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh EH11 3AW” there shall be substituted the following address “Pentland House, 47 Robb’s Loan, Edinburgh EH14 1TW”;

(c) after the definition of “eligible person” there shall be inserted the following definitions:

““fallow land” means permanent fallow or rotational fallow;”;

““grazed fallow” means fallow land grazed extensively by livestock;”;

(d) after the definition of “less-favoured area” there shall be inserted the following definition:

• ““livestock” includes any creature kept for the production of food, wool, skins, or fur or for the purpose of its use in farming the land or in the carrying on in relation to land of any agricultural activity;”;

(e) in the definition of “the set-aside obligations”, in paragraph (b), after “7(1),” there shall be inserted “7(2),”;

(f) in the definition of “tenant”, in paragraph (a)(ii), after “2(1)” there shall be inserted “or section 3(1)”;

(g) after the definition of “tenant” there shall be inserted the following definition:

““vernacular buildings” means buildings traditionally found in the locality;”;

(h) after the definition of “the Woodland Grant Scheme” there shall be inserted the following definition:

• ““year” means, except for the purposes of the definitions of “the set-aside period” and “tenant”, a period of 12 months commencing on 1st October.”.

(1)

1947 c. 48.