The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Dartmoor) Designation Order 1994

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“access route” means a strip of land 10 metres wide which is the subject of an agreement including the requirements specified in Schedule 2 as to public access;

“agreement” means an agreement under section 18(3) of the Agriculture Act 1986 as respects agricultural land in the area designated by article 3;

“conservation plan” means a plan for the carrying out of one or more of the operations specified in Schedule 8 which the farmer undertakes, as part of an agreement, to implement within a period of two years;

“farmer” means a person who has an interest in agricultural land in the area designated by article 3 and who has entered into an agreement with the Minister;

“grassland” means land on which the vegetation consists primarily of grass species;

“grazing unit” means an area of land on which stock management and numbers can be controlled by existing boundaries or by shepherding;

“hay meadow” means land used for the production of hay;

“improved permanent grassland” means permanent grassland which is receiving regular inputs of inorganic fertiliser exceeding 50 kg of nitrogen, 25 kg of phosphate and 25 kg of potash per hectare per year;

“livestock unit” means—

(a)

1 bovine animal more than two years old;

(b)

1.66 bovine animals from six months old to two years old inclusive;

(c)

6.66 sheep; or

(d)

1 horse or pony more than six months old;

“low-input permanent grassland” means permanent grassland which is receiving inputs of inorganic fertiliser not exceeding 50 kg of nitrogen, 25 of kg phosphate and 25 kg of potash per hectare per year;

“managed woodland” means an area of at least one hectare of woodland for which, within two years of the start of the agreement, the farmer or the woodland owner obtains approved for a grant in connection with the management of the land for forestry purposes under section 1 of the Forestry Act 1979(1);

“moorland” means land covered by semi-natural upland vegetation and which is generally unenclosed except along ownership boundaries;

“Newtake” means a parcel of land covered by semi-natural vegetation which has been enclosed in accordance with local custom from the area known as the Forest of Dartmoor;

“permanent grassland” means grassland which has not been ploughed or reseeded for at least ten years;

“recognised dairy breed” means one of the following breeds, namely, Ayrshire, British Friesian, British Holstein, Dairy Shorthorn, Guernsey, Jersey and Kerry;

“unimproved pasture and enclosed rough land” means enclosed areas of rough grazing, scrub, mires and wetland which have not been regularly cultivated, drained or reseeded or treated with fertiliser, lime, slag or pesticides;

“wetland” means land which is subject to regular flooding or which is waterlogged for the greater part of the year;

“woodland” means land used for woodland where that use is ancillary to the farming of land for other agricultural purposes.

(2) Any reference in this Order to a numbered article or Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the article or Schedule bearing that number in this Order.

(1)

1979 c. 21.