The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Loch Lomond) Designation (Amendment) Order 1988

Made: 10th March 1988

Laid before Parliament: 24th March 1988

Coming into force: 14th April 1988

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 18(1), (4) and (11) of the Agriculture Act 1986 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

• (1) This Order may be cited as the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Loch Lomond) Designation (Amendment) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 14th April 1988.

• (2) In this Order “the principal Order” means the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Loch Lomond) Designation Order 1987([^f00002]).

Amendment of principal Order

2

The principal Order shall be amended in accordance with articles 3, 4 and 5 below.

3

In article 2 (Interpretation) there shall be inserted before the definition of “enclosed land” the following definition:—

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

4

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

• “livestock unit” means— 1 cow, or l.25 bovine animals (other than cows) over 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 6.66 sheep;

5

After paragraph 17(b)(ii) of the Schedule there shall be added the following:—

(iii) any additional fencing work that may be necessary to implement the requirements specified in paragraphs 6 and 10 above.

Signed

Sanderson of Bowden — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 2nd March 1988

We consent,

Peter Lloyd — Michael Neubert — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 10th March 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Loch Lomond) Designation Order 1987 (“the principal Order”). The changes are as follows:—

• (a) the insertion of a definition of “cow” (article 3);

• (b) the substitution of a new definition of “livestock unit” (article 4); and

• (c) the addition of fencing, required to encourage heather regeneration or protect archaeological remains, in the conservation plan, making such fencing eligible for additional payments under article 7 of the principal Order (article 5).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1986 c. 49

[^f00002]: S.I. 1987/654