{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-direct-payments-etc-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-direct-payments-etc-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2015/58",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy (Direct Payments etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-direct-payments-etc-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Permanent grassland",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of the first sub-paragraph of Article 45(1) of the Direct Payments Regulation , as it had effect immediately before exit day, areas of permanent grassland are designated as environmentally sensitive where those areas are located in a site of special scientific interest as mentioned in the list published by the Scottish Ministers and these areas have not been ploughed or converted within a period of 15 calendar years ending on 31st December 2014.\n(2) In this regulation, “site of special scientific interest” has the meaning given by section 58 (interpretation) of the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004 .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(1) inserted (31.1.2020) by The Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/18), regs. 1(2), 3(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "The list of selected sites of special scientific interest is published at https://www.ruralpayments.org/publicsite/futures/."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "2004 asp 6, as relevantly amended by the Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 6), section 37(4)(a)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/58/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:31:08.903068+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."
}