Paragraph 18 Sites of special scientific interest

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

Sch. para. 27 substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2014 reg. 3
Sch. para. 1 substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(5)
Sch. para. 6(2)(c) word omitted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(6)
Sch. para. 6(2)(c) semicolon substituted for full stop by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(6)
Sch. para. 6(2)(e) and word added by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(6)
Sch. para. 12(2) words substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(7)
Sch. para. 12(3) substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(8)
Sch. para. 12(4) semicolon substituted for full stop by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(9)
Sch. para. 12(5) added by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(9)
Sch. para. 14 substituted by Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) 2007 reg. 36
Sch. para. 2(1)(c) substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross-compliance) 2007 reg. 7
Sch. para. 16 substituted by Heather and Grass etc. Burning 2008 reg. 10
Sch. para. 1(3) substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2010 reg. 8(a)
Sch. para. 7(1) words omitted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2010 reg. 8(b)(i)
Sch. para. 7(1) words substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2010 reg. 8(b)(i)
Sch. para. 7(3) omitted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2010 reg. 8(b)(ii)
Sch. para. 25 26 inserted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2010 reg. 8(c)
Sch. para. 27 inserted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2011 reg. 4
Sch. para. 28 inserted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2014 reg. 4

(1)

On land which is a site of special scientific interest other than a European site, a farmer must not, without reasonable excuse, knowing that the land concerned is within a site of special scientific interest, intentionally or recklessly destroy or damage any of the flora, fauna, or geological or physiographical features by reason of which that land is of special scientific interest, or intentionally or recklessly disturb any of that fauna.

(2)

In this paragraph, “reasonable excuse” means a reasonable excuse within the meaning of section 28P(7) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.