{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-lake-district-designation-amendment-order-1998/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1301",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Lake District) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-lake-district-designation-amendment-order-1998",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Order",
  "text": "In article 2(1) of the principal Order, the provisions immediately following the words “In this Order—” to the end of article 2(1), in so far as they were made under section 18 of the Agriculture Act 1986, shall be deleted and the following definitions shall be inserted at their appropriate alphabetical place:\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“capital activity” means an activity specified in Schedule 1;\n“conservation plan” means a plan incorporated into an agreement for the carrying out of one or more capital activities within a specified period;\n“cultivated land” means land which is regularly ploughed or otherwise cultivated or that is regularly treated with fertilisers;\n“farmer” means a person who has an interest in agricultural land in the area designated by article 3, and who has also entered into an agreement with the Minister;\n“fell” means land which is covered by semi-natural upland vegetation and is generally unenclosed except along ownership boundaries;\n“heather fell” means fell comprised in a grazing unit where the area of heather is greater than 25 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;\n“inbye land” means enclosed grassland which has not been ploughed, levelled, drained or reseeded for at least ten years and which is subject to regular treatment with fertilisers, used for pasture or for the production of hay or silage;\n“intake land” means enclosed land used exclusively for grazing, most of which has not been regularly ploughed, levelled, drained or treated with fertilisers, lime, slag or pesticides;\n“management activity” means an activity specified in Schedule 2;\n“meadowland” means grassland primarily used for the production of hay or silage;\n“pasture” means enclosed grassland that is not normally ploughed or reseeded within a period of ten years, is used for the production of pasture and is subject to regular inputs of fertiliser;\n“public access route” means a strip of land which is the subject of an agreement and on which access is given to the public;\n“relevant date” means 22nd June 1998;\n“wetland” means land which is subject to regular flooding or which is waterlogged for the greater part of the year; and\n“woodland” means land used for woodland where that use is ancillary to the farming of land for other agricultural purposes.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1301/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:30:21.921069+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}