The Entry Level Agri-Environment Scheme (Pilot) (England) Regulations 2003

Made: 24th March 2003

Laid before Parliament: 25th March 2003

Coming into force: 18th April 2003

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Title, commencement and application

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Interpretation

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Applications

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Power to enter into agreements

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Points target

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Conditions of grant

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Power to make payments of grant

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Power to recover or withhold payments

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SCHEDULE — ACTIVITIES FOR WHICH POINTS MAY BE OBTAINED

Field boundaries, trees and woodlands—

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Historic and landscape features—

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Buffer strips—

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Arable land—

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Forage crops management—

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Reduction of soil erosion—

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Encouragement of diversity of crop types—

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Lowland grass outside less favoured areas—

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Enclosed land in less favoured areas—

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Unenclosed land in less favoured areas—

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Preparation of land management plans—

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Signed

Michael Meacher — Minister of State, — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 24th March 2003

We consent,

John Heppell — Jim Fitzpatrick — Two of the Lords of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 24th March 2003

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1995 c. 25. Section 98(5) contains a definition of the appropriate Minister. The functions of the Minster of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (which related only to England) were transferred to the Secretary of State by virtue of article 2(2) of The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794). The functions of the Secretary of State were, so far as they related to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by virtue of article 2 of and Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). The functions of the Secretary of State were, so far as they related to Scotland, transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

[^f00002]: Section 99 was amended by article 3(d) of the Development Commission (Transfer of Functions and Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/416) and by section 73(4) of and Schedule 8 to the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37).

[^f00003]: 1965 c. 64.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1998/1327, amended by S.I. 1999/1177.

[^f00005]: S.I. 2000/3048, amended by S.I. 2001/3991.

[^f00006]: 1986 c. 49.

[^f00007]: 1949 c. 97.

[^f00008]: 1968 c. 41.

[^f00009]: 1981 c. 69. Sections 28J and 28M were inserted by section 75(1) of and Schedule 9 to the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37).

[^f00010]: 1979 c. 46.

[^f00011]: S.I. 1994/1712, amended by S.I. 1996/3109, S.I. 1998/1606 and S.I. 1999/590.

[^f00012]: S.I. 1999/590, amended by S.I. 1999/2735 and S.I. 1999/2933.

[^f00013]: S.I. 2001/432, amended by S.I. 2001/3139.

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Editorial notes