# The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Shetland Islands) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Shetland Islands) Designation Order 1993 (“the principal Order”).
The Order–
(a) amends the definition of “wetlands” (article 2);
(b) increases the minimum rate of payments under an agreement under section 18(3) of the Agriculture Act 1986 for any year of such agreement commencing on or after 15th August 1996 from £150 to £250 per annum per crofter, farmer or common grazings committee (articles 3 and 4);
(c) amends the maximum rate of payments for expenditure identified in such agreement as required to undertake additional farming operations specified in the principal Order by providing for agreements entered into on or after 15th August 1996 that there is substituted, for the present maximum rate of £3,000 per annum per crofter or farmer and £12,000 per annum per common grazings committee a maximum rate in relation to an agreement with a farmer or crofter of £20,000 for each 5 year conservation plan and, in relation to an agreement with a common grazings committee £60,000 for each such plan and makes transitional provisions for agreements in force on that date (articles 5 and 6); and
(d) makes a drafting amendment to Part I and Part II of the Schedule to the principal Order (article 7).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1965/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-shetland-islands-designation-amendment-order-1996/note
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