{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-central-borders-designation-order-1993/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2767",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Borders) Designation Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-central-borders-designation-order-1993",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order replaces the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Whitlaw and Eildon) Designation Order 1988 and designates as an Environmentally Sensitive Area an area of land within the Ettrick and Lauderdale and Roxburgh Districts of Borders Region (article 3). That area is designated for the purpose of conserving, protecting and enhancing environmental features of the area by the maintenance or adoption of particular agricultural methods.\nThe map annexed to and forming part of this note gives a general guide to the area affected by this Order. The detailed map showing the designated area can be inspected during normal office hours at the offices of the Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department, Pentland House, Robb’s Loan, Edinburgh.\nThe Secretary of State may enter into a management agreement with any person having an interest in agricultural land in a designated area and the Order specifies the requirements as to agricultural practices, methods and operations which must be included in such an agreement (article 4 and Schedule).\nIn the event of a breach of the specified requirements, the Secretary of State may terminate the agreement and recover sums paid under the agreement (article 5(a)). Any questions arising as to whether a breach of such requirements has occurred are to be determined by arbitration (article 5(b)).\nPayments made by the Secretary of State under an agreement are to be–\n(a) at the rate of £15 per year per hectare of land; or\n(b) subject to a minimum payment of £250 per year for each individual farm business and a maximum payment of £1,500 per year for each individual farm business (article 6(1) and (2)).\nWhere an agreement includes the additional farming operations set out in paragraph 10(b) of the Schedule, additional payments are to be made at the rate determined by the Secretary of State subject to a maximum payment of £135 per year per hectare or at the rate of £5,000 per year for each individual farm business, whichever is the lower (article 7).\nCopies of the leaflet “A Muirburn Code” published in 1993 may be obtained from Scottish Natural Heritage or the Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department.\nCopies of the “Prevention of Pollution from Agricultural Activity: A Code of Good Practice” published in 1992 may be obtained without charge from the Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2767/note",
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  "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."
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