{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-woodland-premium-scheme-1997/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-woodland-premium-scheme-1997/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/829",
  "legislation_title": "The Farm Woodland Premium Scheme 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-woodland-premium-scheme-1997",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Restrictions on approval of applications: area limits",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate Minister shall not approve under paragraph 3(1) an application if it concerns the conversion to woodlands of less than 1 hectare of eligible land.\n(2) Save in the case of an application relating to a common grazing, the appropriate Minister shall not approve an application if he decides that the application concerns the conversion to woodlands of more than—\n(a) 40 hectares of unimproved land; or\n(b) 200 hectares of eligible land.\n(3) In considering whether to make the decision referred to in sub-paragraph (2) above, the appropriate Minister may take into account any areas of land converted or to be converted to woodlands pursuant to an approval of any other application relating to land which it would be reasonable for him to regard as falling within the same holding, were this Scheme a Community scheme as defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation 3508/92.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3) above, the term “application” shall include an application for grant under a statutory arrangement similar to this Scheme for the payment of grant in respect of the conversion of agricultural land situated in Northern Ireland to woodland.\n(5) In the case of an application relating to a common grazing, the appropriate Minister shall not approve an application which, whether by itself or when taken 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/829/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:20:42.085597+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."
}