Paragraph 24 Permitted agricultural production

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 2 para. 1(1)(b) word substituted by Arable Area Payments 1997 reg. 10(a)
Sch. 2 para. 11(2) substituted by Arable Area Payments 1997 reg. 10(b)(i)
Sch. 2 para. 13(3)(4) word substituted by Arable Area Payments 1997 reg. 10(b)(ii)
Sch. 2 para. 14(a) words inserted by Arable Area Payments 1997 reg. 10(b)(iii)
Sch. 2 para. 14(a)(i)(ii) revoked by Arable Area Payments 1997 reg. 10(b)(iii)
Sch. 2 para. 18(2) words inserted by Arable Area Payments 1997 reg. 10(b)(iv)
Sch. 2 para. 18(2) words substituted by Arable Area Payments 1997 reg. 10(b)(iv)
Sch. 2 para. 23(1) word inserted by Arable Area Payments 1997 reg. 10(c)
Sch. 2 para. 25(1) substituted by Arable Area Payments 1997 reg. 10(d)
Sch. 2 para. 1(5) substituted by Arable Area Payments 1998 reg. 3(8)(a)
Sch. 2 para. 19 substituted by Arable Area Payments 1998 reg. 3(8)(b)(i)
Sch. 2 para. 20(1) words substituted by Arable Area Payments 1998 reg. 3(8)(b)(ii)(a)
Sch. 2 para. 20(3) inserted by Arable Area Payments 1998 reg. 3(8)(b)(ii)(b)

(1)

A farmer may undertake permitted agricultural production on guaranteed set-aside land only to such extent as does not result in overgrazing of that land.

(2)

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above, “overgrazing” means grazing or otherwise stocking land with livestock in such numbers as adversely to affect the growth, quality or species composition of vegetation on that land to a significant degree.