{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-cairngorms-straths-designation-amendment-order-1996/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-cairngorms-straths-designation-amendment-order-1996/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1963",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Cairngorms Straths) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-cairngorms-straths-designation-amendment-order-1996",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Order",
  "text": "In article 7 of the principal Order (payments for additional farming operations) for the words “Such payments” to the end there shall be substituted–\n“Such payments shall be at a rate to be determined by the Secretary of State–\n(a) in the case of an agreement entered into on or after 15th August 1996, up to a maximum rate of £35,000 for each 5 year conservation plan; and\n(b) in the case of an agreement entered into before that date–\n(i) for the year of the 5 year conservation plan included in such agreement which commenced but which had not ended before that date, up to a maximum rate of £130 per annum for each hectare of land to which the agreement relates, or at the rate of £4,000 per annum per individual farm business, whichever is the lowest; and\n(ii) for the whole years or remaining whole years of such 5 year conservation plan, up to a maximum rate calculated by multiplying £7,000 by the number of those whole years or remaining whole years.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1963/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:38:00.065403+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."
}