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 revoked by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Test Valley) Designation 1998 art. 10(a)
art.6(1A) added by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Test Valley) Designation 1994 art.6(1)
art.6(3) substituted by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Test Valley) Designation 1994 art.6(2)
art.6(1) amended by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Test Valley) Designation 1995 art.4(1)
art.6(3) substituted by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Test Valley) Designation 1995 art.4(2)
art.6(1)(2) amended by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Test Valley) Designation 1997 art.4(a)

(1)

Subject to paragraph (2) below, the Minister shall make payment under an agreement for land to which the agreement relates at the rate of £10 per annum for each hectare of improved permanent grassland and £105 per annum for each hectare of unimproved permanent grassland.

(2)

Where an agreement includes the additional provisions specified in Schedule 2 in relation to any land, the Minister shall make payments at the rate of £240 per annum for each hectare of that land.

(3)

Where an agreement includes one or more of the conservation plan operations specified in Schedule 3, the Minister shall also make payments in respect of the aggregate of the operations included in the agreement 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.