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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-north-peak-designation-order-1993/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/457",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (North Peak) Designation Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-north-peak-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“eroded heather moorland” means moorland where more than 25% of the area of land subject to an agreement is bare ground as a result of reduced heather growth;\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 on which the vegetation consists primarily of grass species;\n“grazeable moorland” includes moorland areas other than areas which are cotton grass (Eriophorum vaginatum), bare ground, rock or scree with less than 10 per cent vegetation cover;\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 land used for the production of grass or crops;\n“livestock unit” means—\n(a) 1 bovine animal more than two years old; or\n(b) 1.66 bovine animals from six months old to two years old inclusive; or\n(c) 6.66 sheep;\n“managed woodland” means an area of at least one hectare of woodland for which, within two years of the start of an 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“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“suppressed heather moorland” means moorland where less than 25% of the area of land subject to an agreement comprises heather;\n“unimproved grassland” means grassland which has not been regularly ploughed, levelled, drained or reseeded, or treated with fertiliser, lime, slag, herbicides or pesticides;\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/1998/1303",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (North Peak) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1303",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (North Peak) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/189",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (North Peak) Designation (Amendment) Order 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/922",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (North Peak) 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)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/457/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:03:49.027959+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."
}