Paragraph 1

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

Sch. para.12 amended by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Argyll Islands) Designation 1996 art.4(a)
Sch. para.12(b)(ix)(bb) amended by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Argyll Islands) Designation 1996 art.4(b)
Sch. para. 4 words substituted by Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024 (Consequential Amendments) 2026 reg. 9(2)

The crofter, farmer or common grazings committee shall avoid damaging rough grazings, unimproved pasture, reverted improved land, machair and dune grassland, wetlands, water margins, native woodland, amenity woodland and scrub by ploughing, new drainage or modifying existing drains, levelling, re-seeding or cultivating or by clearing scrub or iris beds.