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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/709",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Shropshire Hills) Designation Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-shropshire-hills-designation-order-1994",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“access route” means a strip of land 10 metres wide which is the subject of an agreement including the requirements of Schedule 5 as to public access;\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“conservation plan” means a plan for the carrying out of one or more of the operations specified in Schedule 6 which the farmer undertakes, as part of an agreement, to implement within a period of two years;\n“extensive permanent grassland” means permanent grassland which is receiving no or only minimal inputs of fertiliser or pesticides, including enclosed areas of rough grazing;\n“farmer” means a person who has an interest in agricultural land in the area designated by article 3 and who has entered into an agreement with the Minister;\n“grassland” means land on which the vegetation consists primarily of grass species;\n“grazing unit” means an area of land on which stock management can be controlled by existing boundaries or by shepherding;\n“heather” means common heather (Calluna vulgaris) and includes common heather growing in association with other ericaceous dwarf shrub species;\n“heather moorland” means moorland comprised in a grazing unit where the area of heather is greater than 5 hectares or represents more than 25 per cent of the area of the unit;\n“livestock unit” means—\n(a) 1 bovine animal more than two years old;\n(b) 1.66 bovine animals from six months old to two years old inclusive;\n(c) 6.66 sheep; or\n(d) 1 horse more than six months old;\n“managed woodland” means an area of at least one hectare of woodland for which, within two years of the start of the agreement, the farmer or the woodland owner obtains pproval for a grant in connection with the management of the land for forestry purposes under section 1 of the Forestry Act 1979;\n“meadowland” means land used for the production of hay or silage;\n“moorland” means land covered by semi-natural upland vegetation and which is generally unenclosed except along ownership boundaries;\n“permanent grassland” means grassland which has not been ploughed or reseeded for at least ten years, including meadowland;\n“recognised dairy breed” means one of the following breeds, namely, Ayrshire, British Friesian, British Holstein, Dairy Shorthorn, Guernsey, Jersey and Kerry;\n“wetland” means land which is subject to regular flooding or which is waterlogged for the greater part of the year;\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."
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2109",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Shropshire Hills) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2109",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Shropshire Hills) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2109",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Shropshire Hills) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "am. (defns rev. and replaced)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2235",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Shropshire Hills) Designation (Amendment) Order 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/3104",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (England) Designation Orders (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
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  "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."
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