Article 2 Interpretation

In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires:

• “agreement” means an agreement entered into by the Minister under section 112(2) of the Water Act 1989 as regards agricultural land in an area designated by article 3;

• “Agricultural Land Tribunal” means an Agricultural Land Tribunal established under Part V of the Agriculture Act 1947^f1;

• “arable land” means land used for the production of any crop other than grass;

• “autumn sown cereals” means cereals normally sown between 31st July in one year and 1st January in the following year;

• “basic scheme agreement” means an agreement whereby a farmer agrees to comply with the obligations set out in Schedule 1;

• “controlled waters” means the waters referred to in section 103(1) of the Water Act 1989;

• “cover crop” means a crop sown primarily in order to take up nitrogen from the soil in autumn or winter;

• “economic optimum” means the amount of inorganic nitrogen fertiliser applied in any year, such that if extra inorganic nitrogen fertiliser were applied in that year, having regard to the crop in question and the characteristics of the land on which it was planted, the cost of applying that fertiliser would be greater than the extra value of the additional yield of the crop produced;

• “the farmer” means a person who has an interest in agricultural land in an area designated by article 3 and who has entered into an agreement with the Minister;

• “Farm Woodland Scheme” means the Farm Woodland Scheme 1988^f2;

• “forage crop” means a crop, other than grass, sown in July or August to be cut or grazed in the following autumn or winter;

• “grassland” means land on which the vegetation consists predominantly of grass species;

• “holding” means all the land farmed as a unit by or on behalf of a farmer;

• “inorganic nitrogen fertiliser” means material, containing nitrogen, the main function of which is to provide plant food, and is in the form of inorganic salts obtained by extraction, physical industrial processes, chemical industrial processes, or a combination of any or all of these, and includes calcium cyanamide, and urea and its condensation products;

• “the Minister” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;

• “organic nitrogen fertiliser” means animal manure, sewage sludge or any other organic materials containing nitrogen, but excluding calcium cyanamide, and urea and its condensation products;

• “pig place” means the facilities needed to house one fattening pig, save that one pig with progeny over 4 weeks old shall be taken to need 6.5 pig places and one pig with weaners up to 4 weeks old shall be taken to need 1.4 pig places;

• “poultry place” means the facilities needed to house one chicken (layers), one duck, or two chickens (broilers);

• “premium scheme agreement” means an agreement whereby a farmer agrees to comply with the obligations set out in Schedule 2;

• “slurry” means animal manure with a dry matter content by weight of less than 15% at any time.

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