The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (The Broads) Designation (Amendment) Order 1988

Made: 8th February 1988

Laid before Parliament: 9th February 1988

Coming into force: 1st March 1988

Now, therefore, the said Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 18(1), (4) and (11) of the said Act, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation, and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (The Broads) Designation (Amendment) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st March 1988.Amendment of principal Order

2

The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (The Broads) Designation Order 1986[^f00002] shall be amended in accordance with articles 3 and 4 below.

3

In article 2(1) (interpretation) there shall be inserted immediately after the definition of “agreement” the following definition:

• “cow” means a female bovine animal which has calved at least twice;

4

In article 2 (interpretation) there shall be substituted for the definition of “livestock unit” the following definition:

• “livestock unit” means— 1 cow, or 1.4 bovine animals (other than cows) more than two years old, or 1.6 bovine animals (other than cows) from one year old to two years old inclusive, or 2.5 bovine animals less than one year old, or 1 equine animal more than six months old, or 6.66 sheep;

Signed

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 7th February 1988.

John MacGregor — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

We consent,

Michael Neubert — Mark Lennox-Boyd — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 8th February 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends an Order previously made by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food which designated an area in the Broads as an environmentally sensitive area. The Order inserts a definition of “cow” and, for clarification, substitutes a new definition of “livestock unit” (articles 3 and 4).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1986 c. 49.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1986/2254.