{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-basic-payment-and-support-schemes-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-basic-payment-and-support-schemes-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1252",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy Basic Payment and Support Schemes (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-basic-payment-and-support-schemes-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Permanent grassland",
  "text": "(1) Any permanent grassland—\n(a) located in a site of special scientific interest; and\n(b) in relation to which written consent to plough is required in accordance with section 28E of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 but such consent has not been obtained,\nis designated as environmentally sensitive permanent grassland for the purposes of Article 45(1) of the Direct Payments Regulation.\n(2) In this regulation—\n“site of special scientific interest” (“safle o ddiddordeb gwyddonol arbennig”) has the meaning given in section 52(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 14-16 omitted for specified purposes (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1556), regs. 1(2)(a), 12(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "In relation to land in Wales, section 28E has effect as if the reference to Natural England was a reference to the Natural Resources Body for Wales."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1981 c. 69."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1252/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:34:50.653104+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}