Article 6 Rates of payment under agreement

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

art.6(1) amended by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Somerset Levels and Moors) Designation 1996 art.2(2)(a)
art.6(2), Table substituted by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Somerset Levels and Moors) Designation 1996 art.2(2)(b)
art.6(2), Table substituted by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Somerset Levels and Moors) Designation 1998 arts.5,6

(1)

The Minister shall make payments under an agreement at the rate of £120 per annum for each hectare of grassland to which the agreement relates.

(2)

Where an agreement includes the additional provisions specified in Schedule 2, 3 or 4, the Minister shall make payments at the rate perannum for each hectare of land which under the agreement is subject to those additional provisions shown in the following table–

	£ per hectare of land per annum
Schedule 2	180
Schedule 3	70
Schedule 4	350

(3)

Where an agreement includes one or more of the conservation plan operations specified in Schedule 5, the Minister shall make payments according to the operations which are carried out at a rate not exceeding £75 per annum for each hectare of land to which the agreement relates, subject to a maximum of £3000 per agreement.