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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-premium-scheme-scotland-regulations-1997/schedule-4/part-I",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/330",
  "legislation_title": "The Countryside Premium Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-premium-scheme-scotland-regulations-1997",
  "path": "schedule/4/part/I",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nActivity\nMaximum payment rate\n1.\nManagement of grassland for birds\n£125 per hectare per annum.\n2.\nManagement of species-rich grassland\n£80 per hectare per annum.\n3.\nCreation of species-rich grassland\n£250 per hectare per annum.\n4.\nManagement of wetland\n£80 per hectare per annum.\n5.\nCreation of wetland\n£250 per hectare per annum.\n6.\nManagement of water margin\n£100 per 0.25 hectare per annum.\n7.\nManagement of flood plain\n£25 per hectare per annum.\n8.\nManagement of coastal heath\n£80 per hectare per annum.\n9.\nStock disposal\nSubject to Part IV of this Schedule £35 per ewe per annum for each ewe removed from the flock including, where the undertaking is in substitution for an undertaking under the Heather Moorland (Livestock Extensification) Regulations 1995, any ewe removed prior to such substitution in respect of the undertaking under those Regulations.\n10.\nMuirburn\n£5 per hectare per annum for the area of moorland identified for burning.\n11.\nCreation of grass margin or beetlebank\n£184 per 0.25 hectare or part thereof per annum.\n12.\nCreation of conservation headland\n£100 per hectare per annum.\n13.\nIntroduction or retention of extensive cropping\n£120 per hectare per annum.\n14.\nManagement of cropped machair\n£140 per hectare per annum or, where cultivation is combined with the traditional application of seaweed and dung, £220 per hectare.\n15.\nCreation of extended hedge\n£125 per 0.25 hectare or part thereof per annum.\n16.\nManagement of scrub\n£55 per hectare per annum.\n17.\nProvision of access\nWhere the site comprises a 10 metre wide strip £170 per hectare per annum or, in the case of set aside land, £90 per hectare per annum; or\nWhere the site comprises all or part of a field, £50 per hectare per annum; or, in the case of set aside land, £45 per hectare per annum.\n18.\nManagement of a site of archaeological or historic interest\n£80 per 0.25 hectares per annum or part thereof up to 1.5 hectares and £20 per 0.25 hectare or part thereof thereafter.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/330/schedule/4/part/I",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:25:33.085143+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."
}