{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-stewardship-england-regulations-2005/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-stewardship-england-regulations-2005/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/621",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Stewardship (England) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-stewardship-england-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Conversion grants for organic land",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may only make a grant which is a conversion grant—\n(a) in respect of eligible land; and\n(b) where the beneficiary agrees to comply with the conditions set out in an environmental stewardship agreement which contains an OELS element.\n(2) In paragraph (1), eligible land means land which meets the conditions specified in paragraph (3) and is—\n(a) improved land; or\n(b) top fruit orchard which—\n(i) has a total area of least 0.5 hectares; and\n(ii) is planted with at least 80 top fruit trees per hectare.\n(3) The conditions mentioned in paragraph (2) are that the land must—\n(a) on the date of application, be registered with a private inspection body as being in its first year of conversion to organic production; and\n(b) at no time during the period beginning on 10th August 1993 and ending immediately before the date of the agreement, have been registered with a private inspection body as being in conversion to organic production or fully organic (or both).\n(4) The amount of a conversion grant shall be calculated in accordance with Schedule 4.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/621/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:04:57.275914+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."
}