The Farm Woodland Premium Scheme 1992

Requirements for persons taking part in the Scheme

8.  An applicant shall undertake to the appropriate Minister in his application form that he or his personal representatives or, in Scotland, his executors, will—

(a) carry out the work described in the conversion plan relating to the land which the application concerns, within the times and in the manner specified in the plan and to the satisfaction of the appropriate Minister;

(b) maintain any converted land forming part of that land in accordance with good forestry practice, to the satisfaction of the appropriate Minister throughout the period of—

(i) in the case of converted land consisting of 50% or less by area of broadleaved trees, 20 years, commencing on the first day after the end of the year in which the planting of trees on the plantation concerned is completed or, as the case may be, in which the work necessary to encourage natural regeneration of trees on land comprised in the plantation concerned is completed; or

(ii) in the case of converted land consisting of more than 50% by area of broadleaved trees, 30 years, commencing as aforesaid;

(c) not put any such converted land to agricultural use during the period mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) above;

(d) not manage any such converted land as coppice during that period;

(e) not use the trees on any such converted land as Christmas trees or cricket bat willow during that period;

(f) save in the case of a common grazing, notify the appropriate Minister in writing—

(i) of any change in occupation of the eligible land or the converted land which he or they occupy within one month of its occurrence;

(ii) of the termination of the agricultural business carried on by him or them on the agricultural unit which includes or is adjacent to that eligible land or that converted land;

(g) save in the case of a common grazing, furnish such information as to the agricultural business carried on by him or them on the agricultural unit which includes or formerly included or is or was adjacent to the eligible land or converted land which he or they occupy, and as to that converted land, as the appropriate Minister may require to evaluate the effectiveness of this Scheme;

(h) in relation to a common grazing, furnish such information as to that common grazing or, as the case may be, the converted land thereon, or as to his activities in connection with that common grazing, as the appropriate Minister may require to evaluate the effectiveness of this Scheme.