The Countryside Stewardship (Amendment) Regulations 2001

Amendment of the principal Regulations E+W+S

3.  The principal Regulations shall be amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 2(1), by the substitution for the definition of “agreement” of ““agreement” means an agreement, whether made before or after the coming into force of these Regulations, which remains in force for a specified term, provides for the activity in question to be carried out in relation to land which is the subject of the agreement and requires the Minister to make payments to the beneficiary in respect of the carrying out of that activity thereon;”;

(b) in regulation 2(1), by the insertion, at the end of the definition of “agreement year”, of “and “relevant agreement year”, in relation to an activity, means an agreement year indicated in the agreement in question as being a year in relation to which that activity is relevant”;

(c) in regulation 3—

(i) by the deletion of paragraph (2); and

(ii) in paragraph (3), by the substitution for sub-paragraph (b) of—

“(b) does not require the Minister to make payments in excess of the maximum payment rate specified in column 2 in respect of—

(i) any activity specified in column 1 of Part I or II of the Schedule;

or

(ii) any matter specified in column 1 of Part III of the Schedule;”

(d) in regulation 5(b), by the substitution for “7” of the figure “8”;

(e) In Part I of the Schedule—

(i) by the substitution in column 2—

(aa) in item 1(f), for “£250 per hectare per agreement year”, of “£250 per hectare in respect of each relevant agreement year”;

(bb) in item 2(h), for “£250 per hectare per agreement year”, of “£250 per hectare in respect of each relevant agreement year”;

(cc) in item 4(e), for “£250 per hectare per agreement year”, of “£250 per hectare in respect of each relevant agreement year”;

(dd) in item 6(f), for “£250 per hectare per agreement year”, of “£250 per hectare in respect of each relevant agreement year”;

(ii) by the insertion, after item 10, of the entries in respect of item 11 set out in columns 1 and 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations; and

(f) in paragraph 1 of Part IV of the Schedule, by the insertion, in its appropriate alphabetical place, of “low input” means restricted seed rate, limited fertilizer and specific herbicides only;.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 3 in force at 7.1.2002, see reg. 1