Paragraph 8 Exemptions from the requirement to establish a green cover on set-aside land

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)

In relation to each field or part field to which this paragraph is applied by virtue of any of paragraphs 2 to 6 above, a farmer shall by virtue of this provision be treated as having been exempted from a requirement to establish a green cover by the start of the current green cover season where he satisfies the Minister that for climatic reasons it was not practicable for there to be such a green cover by that time, in which case he shall establish a green cover as soon as reasonably possible thereafter.

(2)

In relation to each field or part field to which this paragraph is applied by virtue of any of paragraphs 2 to 6 above, a farmer need not establish a green cover on–

(a)

a strip of land up to 1 metre wide at the edge of the land set aside, where the land set aside adjoins land planted with a crop other than a seed crop;

(b)

a strip of land up to 2 metres wide at the edge of land set aside, where the land set aside adjoins land planted with a seed crop; or

(c)

a strip of land up to 5 metres wide at the edge of the land set aside in any place where vehicular access to that land from a road or track adjacent to that land may be possible, provided that the strip is ploughed and left as bare fallow.