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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-scotland-act-1948/schedule-SIXTH/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/11-12/45",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948",
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  "text": "In determining whether the manner in which a unit is being farmed is such as aforesaid regard shall be had, but without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of the last foregoing paragraph, to the following:—\n(a) the maintenance of permanent grassland (whether meadow or pasture) properly mown or grazed and in a good state of cultivation and fertility;\n(b) the handling or cropping of the arable land, including the treatment of temporary grass, so as to maintain it clean and in a good state of cultivation and fertility;\n(c) where the system of farming practised requires the keeping of livestock, the proper stocking of the holding;\n(d) the maintenance of an efficient standard of management of livestock;\n(e) as regards hill sheep farming in particular:—\n(i) the maintenance of a sheep stock of a suitable breed and type in regular ages (so far as is reasonably possible) and the keeping and management thereof in accordance with the recognised practices of hill sheep farming;\n(ii) the use of lug, horn or other stock marks for the purpose of determining ownership of stock sheep;\n(iii) The regular selection and retention of the best female stock for breeding;\n(iv) the regular selection and use of tups possessing the qualities most suitable and desirable for the flock;\n(v) the extent to which regular muirburn is made;\n(f) the extent to which the necessary steps are being taken—\n(i) to secure and maintain the freedom of crops and livestock from disease and from infestation by insects and other pests;\n(ii) to exercise systematic control of vermin and of bracken, whins, broom and injurious weeds;\n(iii) to protect and preserve crops harvested or in course of being harvested;\n(iv) to carry out necessary work of maintenance and repair of the fixed and other equipment.",
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