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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 (Central Southern Uplands) Designation 1996 art.5(a)
Sch. para.10 amended by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Southern Uplands) Designation 1996 art.5(b)(i)
Sch. para.10(b) substituted by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Southern Uplands) Designation 1996 art.5(b)(ii)
Sch. para. 4 words substituted by Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024 (Consequential Amendments) 2026 reg. 4(2)

The farmer shall avoid damaging rough grazings, unimproved pasture, reverted improved land, wetlands, water margins, native woodland, amenity woodland and scrub by ploughing, new drainage, modifying existing drains, levelling, re-seeding or cultivating.