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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-exmoor-designation-order-1993/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/83",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-exmoor-designation-order-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“agreement” means an agreement under section 18(3) of the Agriculture Act 1986 as respects agricultural land in the area designated by article 3;\n“enclosed unimproved permanent grassland” means enclosed permanent grassland which has not undergone regular land cultivation, or which has not been regularly treated with fertilisers, lime, slag or pesticides;\n“farmer” means a person who has an interest in agricultural land in the area designated by article 3 and who also has entered into an agreement with the Minister;\n“grassland” means land of which the vegetation consists primarily of grass species;\n“grazing unit” means an area of land on which stock management and numbers can be controlled by existing boundaries or by shepherding;\n“heather moorland or coastal heath” means moorland or coastal heath comprised in a grazing unit where the area of heather is greater than 10 hectares or represents more than 25 per cent of the area of the unit;\n“heather” means common heather (Calluna vulgaris), and includes common heather growing in association with other ericaceous dwarf shrub species including western gorse (Ulex gallii);\n“improved permanent grassland” means permanent grassland used for pasture or for the production of hay or silage which is regularly treated with fertilisers;\n“livestock unit” means—\n(a) 1 bovine animal more than 2 years old, or\n(b) 1.66 bovine animals from six months old to two years old inclusive, or\n(c) 6.66 sheep, or\n(d) 1 soliped (other than a pure bred Exmoor pony) more than six months old;\n“managed woodland” means an area of at least one hectare of woodland for which, within two years of the start of the agreement, the farmer obtains approval for a grant either in connection with the management of the land for forestry purposes under section 1 of the Forestry Act 1979 or in relation to the conservation and enhancement of a National Park under section 39 or 44 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981;\n“moorland” means land covered by semi-natural upland vegetation which is generally unenclosed except along ownership boundaries;\n“permanent grassland” means grassland which has not been ploughed or reseeded for at least ten years;\n“woodland” means land used for woodland where that use is ancillary to the farming of land for other agricultural purposes.\n(2) Any reference in this Order to a numbered article or Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the article or Schedule bearing that number in this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1979 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1981 c. 69."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1302",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1302",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/195",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation (Amendment) Order 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/928",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation (Amendment) Order 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/3104",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (England) Designation Orders (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted by S.I. 1996/3104, reg. 2(2) cease to have effect (with saving)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1295",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (England) Designation Orders (Revocation of Specified Provisions) Regulations 1998 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
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  },
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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