Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Cairngorms Straths) Designation Order 1993 (“the principal Order”).

The Order–

(a)

substitutes for the reference in the principal Order to “enclosed land” a reference to “inbye land”, provides a definition of “inbye land” and amends the definition of “wetlands” (articles 2 and 3);

(b)

amends the maximum rate of payments for expenditure identified in an agreement under section 18(3) of the Agriculture Act 1986 as required to undertake additional farming operations specified in the principal Order. For agreements entered into on or after 15th August 1996 there is substituted for the present maximum rate of £4,000 per annum per individual farm business a maximum rate of £35,000 for each 5 year conservation plan included in such agreement. Transitional provision is made for agreements in force on that date (article 4); and

(c)

makes a drafting amendment to the Schedule to the principal Order (article 5).