This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I. 1998/1302 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 2174

AGRICULTURE

The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1998

Made

30th August 1998

Laid before Parliament

11th September 1998

Coming into force

16th October 1998

Whereas, pursuant to section 18(1) of the Agriculture Act 1986(1), the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ("the Minister") has by order designated an area in Exmoor as an environmentally sensitive area;

Now therefore, the Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 18(1) and (4)(2) of the said Act, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Order:

Title and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 16th October 1998.

Interpretation

2. In this Order, "the principal Order" means the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation Order 1993(3).

Amendment of the principal Order

3. The principal Order shall have effect as if, in article 2 of the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998(4), for the words "the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation (Amendment) Order 1993" there were substituted "the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation Order 1993".

4. In Schedule 1 to the principal Order (capital activities), for the words "Fencing associated with the exclusion of stock under the woodland tier" there shall be substituted "Fencing associated with the exclusion of stock in woodland".

5. In Part I of Schedule 2 to the principal Order (management activities), with respect to the rate of payment specified in respect of item 14 (hedgerow management), for "£24 per metre" in column 2 there shall be substituted "£0.24 per metre".

Elliot Morley

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

30th August 1998

We consent,

Bob Ainsworth

Jim Dowd

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

25th August 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/83) ("the principal Order"), which designated an area in Exmoor as an environmentally sensitive area in implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2078/92 (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, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2772/95 (OJ No. L288, 1.12.95, p. 35) as in turn rectified by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1962/96 (OJ No. L259, 12.10.96, p. 7).

This Order corrects several errors in the principal Order introduced by the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1302).

No regulatory appraisal has been made in respect of this Order.

(1)

1986 c. 49. The expression "the Minister" is defined in section 18(11).

(2)

Section 18(4) was amended by S.I. 1994/249; sub-section 18(4A) was inserted by S.I. 1997/1457.

(3)

S.I. 1993/83, amended by S.I. 1994/928, S.I. 1995/195, S.I. 1995/960, S.I. 1996/3104, S.I. 1997/1451, S.I. 1998/1295 and S.I. 1998/1302.

(4)

S.I. 1998/1302