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The Arable Area Payments Regulations 1996

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Cutting or destruction of the green cover

7.—(1) In each field or part field to which this paragraph is applied by virtue of any of paragraphs 2 to 6 above, a farmer shall either–

(a)(subject to sub-paragraph (2) below), cut the green cover to an average length of no more than 10 centimetres between 15th July and 15th August during the current set-aside period; or

(b)where he is not required to maintain the green cover after the end of the current set-aside period, destroy the green cover between 1st July and 31st August during the current set-aside period.

(2) A farmer may (where he cuts the green cover in a field or part field in accordance with paragraph (1)(a) above)–

(a)leave a strip of green cover up to 2 metres wide uncut adjacent to any hedge or woodland; and

(b)in the case of a field which is to be set aside in the following scheme year, leave a further 25% of the area set aside in that field uncut provided that any area left uncut in accordance with this paragraph which has also been left uncut in the previous two scheme years in accordance with this paragraph is cut in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) in the following scheme year.

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