Paragraph 3

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

Sch., para.5 rev. in pt. by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Breadalbane) Designation 1995 art.2(5)(a)
Sch., para.10 amended by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Breadalbane) Designation 1995 art.2(5)(b)
Sch. para.10(b)(vil) added by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Breadalbane) Designation 1996 art.2
Sch. para. 4 words substituted by Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024 (Consequential Amendments) 2026 reg. 3(2)

The farmer shall not apply herbicides, pesticides, lime or fertiliser (including farmyard manure and slurry) to rough grazings (including heather moorland), unimproved pasture, long-standing reverted improved land, wetlands, water margins, native woodland, amenity woodland and scrub, except that herbicides may be applied to control bracken ( pteridium aquilinum ), spear thistle ( cirsium vulgare ), creeping or field thistle ( cirsium arvense ), curled dock ( rumex crispus ), broadleaved dock ( rumex obtusifolius ), or ragwort ( senecio jacobaea ) and lime and farmyard manure may be applied to unimproved pasture and long-standing reverted improved land with the prior written approval of the Secretary of State;

Provided that:

(a)

any herbicides used must be applied by weed wiper, spot treatment or hand spraying or, in exceptional circumstances and with the prior written approval of the Secretary of State, by other methods;

(b)

in the case of bracken, chemical control shall only be by means of asulam or other chemicals approved in writing by the Secretary of State.