The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stage II) Designation (Amendment) (No.2) Order 2001

This Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct errors in S.I. 2001/3195 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 3774

AGRICULTURE, ENGLAND

The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stage II) Designation (Amendment) (No.2) Order 2001

Made

22nd November 2001

Laid before Parliament

28th November 2001

Coming into force

21st December 2001

Whereas, pursuant to section 18(1) of the Agriculture Act 1986(1), the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (“the Minister”) has designated areas in Breckland, Clun, North Peak, the Suffolk River Valleys and the Test Valley as environmentally sensitive areas;

Now, therefore, the Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 18(1) and (4)(d)(2) of the said Act, and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:

Title and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stage II) Designation (Amendment)(No. 2) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 21st December 2001.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order “the principal Order” means the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stage II) Designation Order 2000(3).

Amendment of the principal Order

3.  Part 3 of Schedule 4 to the principal Order shall be amended, in column 2, by the substitution—

(a) in item 2, of “270” for the figure “290”; and

(b) in item 7(a) of “290” for the figure “270”.

Elliot Morley

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

21st November 2001

We consent,

Tony McNulty

John Heppell

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

22nd November 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note does not form part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stage II) Order 2000 (“the principal Order”) which designated areas in Breckland, Clun, the North Peak, the Suffolk River Valleys and the Test Valley as environmentally sensitive areas, by correcting errors in the payment rates specified in the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stage II)(Amendment) Order 2001/3195.

No Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared in respect of this Order.

(1)

1986 c. 49. The expression “the Minister” is defined in section 18(11).

(2)

Section 18(4) was amended by S.I. 1994/249.

(3)

S.I. 2000/3050, amended by S.I. 2001/3195.