The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Somerset Levels and Moors) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996

Made: 25th March 1996

Laid before Parliament: 27th March 1996

Coming into force: 17th April 1996

Now, therefore, the said Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 18(1) and (4)[^f00002] 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:

Title and commencement

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This Order may be cited as the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Somerset Levels and Moors) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 17th April 1996.

Amendment

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• (1) The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Somerset Levels and Moors) Designation Order 1922[^f00003] shall be amended in accordance with paragraph (2) of this article.

• (2) In article 6 (rates of payment under agreement).—

• (a) in paragraph (1), for “£125” there shall be substituted “£130”; and

• (b) in paragraph (2), for the table there shall be substituted the following table:

Saving

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Article 2 of this Order shall not apply in respect of any annual payment to a farmer which relates wholly or in part to any period before 1st April 1996.

Signed

Tim Boswell — Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food — 25th March 1996

We consent,

Simon Burns — Liam Fox — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 21st March 1996

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Somerset Levels and Moors) Designation Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/53, amended by S.I. 1994/251 and S.I. 1994/932) which designated an area in the Somerset Levels and Moors as an environmentally sensitive area, in compliance with Title VII of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2328/91 (OJ No. L218, 6.8.91, p.1) on improving the efficiency of agricultural structures. This Order complies with Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2328/92 (OJ No. L215, 30.7.92, p.85) on agricultural production methods compatible with the requirements of protection of the environment and the maintenance of the countryside which superseded Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2328/91.

Subject to a saving provision, the Order amends the rates of payments to be made by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food pursuant to a management agreement made under section 18(3) of the Agriculture Act 1986 (articles 2 and 3).

No Compliance Cost Assessment in relation to this Order has been prepared.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1986 c. 49. The expression “the Minister” is defined in section 18(11).

[^f00002]: Section 18(4) was amended by S.I. 1994/249.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1992/53, amended by S.I. 1994/251 and S.I. 1994/932.