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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-essex-coast-designation-order-1994/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-essex-coast-designation-order-1994/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/711",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Essex Coast) Designation Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-essex-coast-designation-order-1994",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Rates of payment under agreement",
  "text": "(1) The Minister shall make payments under an agreement at a rate of £70 per annum per hectare of permanent grassland to which the agreement relates, unless a higher rate is applicable in accordance with paragraph (3) below.\n(2) Where an agreement includes the requirements as to public access specified in Schedule 2 the Minister shall make payments at the rate of £170 per annum for each hectare of access route.\n(3) Where an agreement includes the additional provisions specified in any of the options in Schedule 3 in relation to any permanent grassland, the Minister shall make payments at the rate per annum for each hectare of that land shown in the following table—\nper hectare of land per annum\nSchedule 3\noption 1\n£180\noption 2\n£210\n(4) Where an agreement includes the additional provisions specified in Schedule 4 in relation to any land the Minister shall make payments at a rate of £220 per annum for each hectare of that land.\n(5) Where an agreement includes a conservation plan, the Minister shall also make payments in respect of the aggregate of the operations included in the plan at a rate not exceeding £75 per annum for each hectare of land to which the agreement relates, subject to a maximum of £3,000 for each such plan.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2108",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Essex Coast) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2108",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Essex Coast) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2108",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Essex Coast) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2232",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Essex Coast) Designation (Amendment) Order 1999"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/711/article/7",
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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."
}