The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Cambrian Mountains-Extension) Designation (Amendment) Order 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Cambrian Mountains-Extension) Designation Order 1987 which designated an area of the Cambrian Mountains as an environmentally sensitive area.

This Order—

(a) adds new definitions (article 3(2));

(b) amends the address at which maps of the designated area are deposited (article 3(4));

(c) specifies new rates of payment under management agreements entered into in relation to agricultural land in the designated area (article 3(7));

(d) substitutes a new Schedule 1 for the previous Schedule of requirements which must be included in an agreement (article 3(8));

(e) inserts Schedules 2 and 3 setting out additional provisions which may be included in an agreement and which attract higher rates of payment (article 3(8));

(f) inserts a Schedule 4 of optional provisions which may be included in an agreement as part of a conservation plan and which attract additional payments (article 3(8)).

The Order also makes minor and consequential amendments.

Agreements made on or before 28th February 1994 are unaffected by the amendments (article 4).