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Article 6 Rules: further provision

England and Wales

(1)

Rules under article 5(d)(i) may in particular include provision—

(a)

limiting periods when animals may be turned out onto the Commons;

(b)

limiting the number of animals which may be turned out onto the Commons during a specified period (for example, by restricting each commoner with rights to graze animals from exercising more than a specified proportion of those rights during the specified period);

(c)

restricting or prohibiting the turning out of entire animals;

(d)

prohibiting the turning out of animals by anyone not having a legal right to do so;

(e)

about measures to be taken to control disease among animals on the Commons, including temporary prohibition of the grazing of animals on the Commons;

(f)

about the supplementary feeding of animals on the Commons;

(g)

about standards of husbandry to be followed by persons keeping animals on the Commons; and

(h)

requiring, from any person to be entered in the register maintained in accordance with article 8, the information described in that article.

(2)

Rules may be made under article 5(d)(i) applying to—

(a)

all of the Commons; or

(b)

such of the areas of land comprised in the Commons as are specified in the rules.