{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-preseli-designation-amendment-order-1997/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/974",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Preseli) Designation (Amendment) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-preseli-designation-amendment-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Preseli) Designation Order 1994",
  "text": "(1) The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Preseli) Designation Order 1994 shall be further amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this article.\n(2) In paragraph (1) of article 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) in the definition of the word “bank”, for the word “or” where it occurs immediately after the word “stone”, there shall be substituted the word “and”;\n(b) after the definition of “conservation headland” there shall be added the following definition—\n““conservation plan” means a plan for the carrying out of one or more of the operations specified in Schedule 4 which the farmer undertakes, as part of an agreement, to implement within a period of two years;”;\n(3) In article 6 (rates of payment under agreement)—\n(a) in paragraph (3)—\n(i) in subparagraph (b), for “£35” there shall be substituted “£60”;\n(ii) in subparagraph (c), for “£35” there shall be substituted “£70”;\n(iii) in subparagraph (f), for “£35” there shall be substituted “£80”.\n(b) in paragraph (4)—\n(i) in subparagraph (a), for “£25” there shall be substituted “£50”;\n(ii) in subparagraph (b), for “£20” there shall be substituted “£30”;\n(iii) in subparagraph (g), for “£90” there shall be substituted “£150”;\n(iv) in subparagraph (h), for “£50” there shall be substituted “£90”;\n(v) in subparagraph (i), for “£70” there shall be substituted “£125”;\n(vi) in subparagraph (j), for “£80” there shall be substituted “£200”;\n(vii) in subparagraph (k), for “£80” there shall be substituted “£200”.\n(c) for paragraph (5), for “£17” there shall be substituted “£20”.\n(d) for paragraph (6) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“(6) Where an agreement includes a conservation plan, the Secretary of State shall also make payments in respect of operations included in the plan, subject to a maximum of £20,000 for that agreement.”.\n(e) paragraph (7) shall be deleted.\n(4) In paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 (conservation plan operations) the word “traditional”, where it occurs before the word “farm”, shall be deleted and the words “using traditional materials” shall be inserted after the word “buildings”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/239, amended by S.I. 1995/242, 1996/3077."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/974/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:10:43.507996+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."
}