Schedule 2 REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO LAND WHICH IS TO REVERT TO HEATHLAND

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

Sch.2 substituted by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Breckland) Designation 1998 art.9, Sch.2
Sch. 2 words inserted by Environmentally Sensitive Areas Designation Orders 1996 reg. 3 Sch. Pt. 2
Sch. 2 amendment made by S.I. 1996/3104, reg. 3 revoked by Environmentally Sensitive Areas Designation Orders (Revocation of Specified Provisions) 1998 reg. 3 Sch.
Sch.2 amended by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Breckland) Designation 1999 arts.3,4

As regards any land which is the subject of an agreement, which is suitable for reversion to heathland and which has been under improved grassland management or continuously used in rotation for arable cropping—

(1)

the farmer shall cease grassland production, or arable production, immediately after harvesting any crop already in the ground;

(2)

within twelve months of the start of the agreement, the farmer shall agree in writing with the Minister a programme for reversion of the land to heathland and shall begin to carry it out;

(3)

when the programme described in subparagraph (2) above has been completed, the farmer shall observe the requirements of Schedule 1 in relation to the land.