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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/set-aside-access-scotland-regulations-1994/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3085",
  "legislation_title": "The Set-Aside Access (Scotland) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/set-aside-access-scotland-regulations-1994",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations implement in part Council Regulation (EEC) No.2078/92 (OJ No.L215, 30.7.92, p.85) on agricultural production methods compatible with the requirements of the protection of the environment and maintenance of the countryside.\nThe Regulations, which apply to Scotland, provide for the payment of aid to eligible persons who undertake for five years from 15 January in the year following acceptance of their application to permit members of the public to have access to an area of land, referred to in the Regulations as the “access area”, for the purposes of quiet recreation, to set aside that area and to manage it and any adjacent lands or fields crossed by an access way in accordance with the requirements set out in the Schedule to the Regulations (regulation 3).\nRequirements in relation to the access area are set out (regulation 4).\nApplications for aid must include a map identifying certain details (regulation 5) and restrictions on the acceptance of applications in certain circumstances are set out (regulation 6).\nProvision is made for a new occupier to receive aid in place of the original occupier upon the Secretary of State’s acceptance of his undertaking to comply with the access obligations undertaken by the original occupier for the remainder of the access period (as defined in regulation 2(1)) (regulation 7).\nAid is payable annually in arrear in five instalments and the rates of payment are set out (regulation 8).\nThe Regulations also—\n(a) provide for an obligation to permit entry and inspection (regulation 10);\n(b) provide for withholding and recovery of aid and termination (regulation 11);\n(c) create an offence, punishable on summary conviction with a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, of knowingly or recklessly making a false statement in order to obtain aid (regulation 12).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3085/note",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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