{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-north-peak-designation-amendment-order-1998/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1303",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (North Peak) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-north-peak-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 that area designated by article 3;\n“capital activity” means an activity specified in Schedule 1 to this Order;\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 that area designated by article 3, and who has also entered into an agreement with the Minister;\n“heather” means common heather (calluna vulgaris), and includes common heather growing in association with other ericaceous dwarf shrub species;\n“management activity” means an activity specified in Schedule 2;\n“meadowland” means grassland primarily used for the production of hay or silage;\n“moorland” means land covered by semi-natural upland vegetation which is generally unenclosed except along ownership boundaries;\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“rough grazing” means land covered by semi-natural vegetation;\n“semi-improved grassland” means permanent grassland which receives only small amounts of inorganic fertiliser and has not been regularly cultivated or reseeded;\n“unimproved grassland” means grassland which has not been regularly ploughed, levelled, drained or reseeded or treated with fertilisers, lime, slag, herbicides or pesticides; 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/1998/1303/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:30:20.522299+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."
}