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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-test-valley-designation-order-1993/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/459",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Test Valley) Designation Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-test-valley-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“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 and includes meadowland, pasture and rough grazing;\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“unimproved permanent grassland” means grassland which has not been regularly ploughed, levelled, drained or reseeded, or treated with fertiliser, lime, slag, herbicides or pesticides for at least five years;\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": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1308",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Test Valley) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1308",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Test Valley) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/919",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Test Valley) Designation (Amendment) Order 1994"
    },
    {
      "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/3104",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (England) Designation Orders (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/459/article/2",
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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."
}