# Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977, Paragraph 1


In this Order, “agricultural land”
(a) means any land used as arable, meadow or pasture ground only (including pastoral land), land used for a plantation or a wood or for the growth of saleable underwood, or land exceeding [ 0.1012 hectare] used for the purposes of poultry farming, market gardens, nursery grounds, orchards or allotments, but does not include land occupied together with a house as a park, gardens or pleasure grounds, or land kept or preserved mainly or exclusively for purposes of sport or recreation or land used as a racecourse; and
(b) includes land occupied with, and used solely in connection with the use of, such a building as is mentioned in paragraph 2(1)( b).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1977/2157/schedule/1/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/rates-northern-ireland-order-1977/schedule-1/paragraph-1
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