{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-upper-thames-tributaries-designation-order-1994/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-upper-thames-tributaries-designation-order-1994/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/712",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Upper Thames Tributaries) Designation Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-upper-thames-tributaries-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 specified in Schedule 2 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, lime, slag or pesticides;\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“fen habitat” means an area of semi-natural vegetation which is waterlogged throughout the year;\n“grassland” means land on which the vegetation consists primarily of grass species;\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 inclusive;\n(c) 6.66 sheep;\n(d) 1 horse more than six months old; or\n(e) 4.35 farmed deer;\n“permanent grassland” means grassland which has not been ploughed or reseeded for at least five years;\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(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": "am. (defns rev. and replaced)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2237",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Upper Thames Tributaries) Designation (Amendment) Order 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/3104",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (England) Designation Orders (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/712/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:37:12.812473+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}