{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-stewardship-regulations-1996/schedule/part-IV",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-stewardship-regulations-1996/schedule/part-IV.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/695",
  "legislation_title": "The Countryside Stewardship Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-stewardship-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/part/IV",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "IV",
  "heading": "INTERPRETATION",
  "text": "In Parts I to III of the Schedule—\n“carr” means an area of marshy ground on which the vegetation is predominantly willow or alder;\n“fen” means an area off low lying marshy ground;\n“grassland” means land on which the vegetation consists primarily of grass species;\n“heath” means an area of grass, shrubs and trees on acidic sandy soils;\n“improved land” means land which has been either drained, fertilised, reseeded or otherwise managed to increase its productive capacity;\n“lowland” means other than upland;\n“management plan” means a plan for carrying out any activity (other than the making of a payment) provided for in a stewardship agreement;\n“maiden fruit tree” means a fruit tree not more than 2 years old;\n“meadowland” means land used for the production of hay or silage;\n“reedbeds” means an area of marshy ground on which the vegetation consists primarily of reeds;\n“rough pasture” means permanent grassland on which the vegetation is predominantly natural because agricultural improvement is difficult due to terrain or other physical constraints;\n“scrape” means a shallow excavation which may hold water seasonally;\n“standard fruit tree” means a fruit tree other than a maiden fruit tree with a stem of between 1.6 metres and 2 metres and no more than 5 years old;\n“upland” means situated within the area in England included in the list of less-favoured farming areas established under Article 2(2) of Council Directive 75/268 EEC on mountain and hill farming in less-favoured areas (as last amended by Council Regulation EEC No. 797/85), which list is contained in Council Directive 84/169 EEC as amended by Commission Decision 91/25 EEC; and\n“watermeadow” means a meadow which is periodically inundated with water through a system of sluices and carriers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L128 19.5.75, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L93 30.3.85, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No. L82 26.3.84, p.67."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ No. L16 22.1.91, p.25."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1827",
      "affecting_title": "The Countryside Stewardship (Amendment)Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/695/schedule/part/IV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:42.006170+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."
}