Section 7 Restrictions on approval of applications

The appropriate Minister shall not approve under paragraph 3(1) an application in relation to an agricultural unit if—

(a)

save in the case of an application relating to a common grazing, the application (whether by itself or when taken together with any other application relating to that agricultural unit) concerns the conversion to woodlands of—

(i)

more than 50 of the land comprised in that unit; or

(ii)

more than 40 hectares of unimproved land forming part of that unit;

(b)

in the case of an application relating to a common grazing, the application (whether by itself or when taken together with any other application relating to the common grazing) concerns the conversion to woodlands of more than 100 hectares of the eligible land comprised in that common grazing; or

(c)

the application concerns the conversion to woodlands of less than 1 hectare of eligible land.