Section 8 Requirements for persons taking part in the Scheme
An applicant shall undertake to the appropriate Minister that he or his personal representatives or, in Scotland, his executors, will—
carry out the work described in the conversion plan relating to the land which the application concerns, within the times and in the manner specified in the plan and to the satisfaction of the appropriate Minister;
maintain any converted land forming part of that land in accordance with good forestry practice, to the satisfaction of the appropriate Minister—
in the case of converted land which in the appropriate Minister’s view consists of 50 per cent or less by area of broadleaved trees or eligible Scots Pine or a combination thereof, throughout the period of 20 years, commencing on the first day after the end of the year in which the planting of trees on the plantation concerned is completed or, as the case may be, in which the work necessary to encourage natural regeneration of trees on land comprised in the plantation concerned is completed; or
in the case of converted land which in the appropriate Minister’s view consists of more than 50 per cent by area of broadleaved trees or eligible Scots Pine or a combination thereof, throughout the period of 30 years, commencing as aforesaid;
not put any such converted land to agricultural use during the period mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) above, other than the harvesting of an agricultural crop grown as a result of planting woodland by sowing a mixture of tree seeds and seeds of an agricultural crop;
not manage any such converted land as coppice during that period, unless the appropriate Minister has notified him or them in writing that the land may be so managed to enhance the conservation of wildlife;
not use the trees on any such converted land, other than nurse trees, as Christmas trees during that period;
remove any trees specified in the conversion plan to be nurse trees within 10 years of planting;
save in the case of a common grazing, notify the appropriate Minister in writing—
of any change in occupation of the eligible land or the converted land which he or they occupy within three months of its occurence;
of the termination of the agricultural business carried on by him or them on the holding which includes that converted land;
save in the case of a common grazing, furnish such information as to the agricultural business carried on by him or them on the holding which includes converted land which he or they occupy, and as to that converted land, as the appropriate Minister may require to evaluate the effectiveness of this Scheme;and
in relation to a common grazing, furnish such information as to that common grazing or, as the case may be, the converted land thereon, or as to his or their activities in connection with that common grazing, as the appropriate Minister may require to evaluate the effectiveness of this Scheme.