AGRICULTURE Title and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Shropshire Hills) Designation (Amendment) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 31st August 1999. Interpretation 2 In this Order “the principal Order ” means the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Shropshire Hills) Designation Order 1994 . Amendment of the principal Order 3 The principal Order shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Order. 4 In article 2(1) of the principal Order, the provisions immediately following the words “In this Order–” to the end of article 2(1), in so far as they were made under section 18 of the Agriculture Act 1986, shall be deleted and the following definitions shall be inserted at their appropriate alphabetical place: “agreement” means an agreement under section 18(3) of the Agriculture Act 1986 as respects agricultural land in the area designated by article 3; “capital activity” means an activity specified in Schedule 1; “conservation plan” means a plan incorporated into an agreement for the carrying out of one or more capital activities within a specified period; “cultivated land” means land which is regularly ploughed or otherwise cultivated or that is regularly treated with fertilisers; “extensive permanent grassland” means permanent grassland which is receiving no or only minimal inputs of fertiliser or pesticides; “farmer” means a person who has an interest in agricultural land in the area designated by article 3, and who has also entered into an agreement with the Minister; “grassland” means land on which the vegetation consists primarily of grass species and includes meadowland, pasture and rough grazing; “management activity” means an activity specified in Schedule 2; “permanent grassland” means grassland which has not been ploughed or re-seeded for at least five years; “public access route” means a strip of land which is the subject of an agreement and on which access is given to the public; “woodland” means land used for woodland where that use is ancillary to the farming of land for other agricultural purposes. . 5 For article 4 of the principal Order and the heading thereto there shall be substituted the following Article and heading– Matters in respect of which payments may be made 4 Payments to be made by the Minister under an agreement may be made in respect of a capital activity or a management activity. . 6 For article 5 of the principal Order there shall be substituted the following article and heading thereto– Rates of payment 5 1 Payments to be made by the Minister under an agreement shall not exceed– a in the case of a management activity, the rate specified in respect of that activity in column 2 of Schedule 2 to this Order; and b in the case of one or more capital activities included in a conservation plan, £100,000 in aggregate. 2 Any works which form part of an activity which constitutes both a management activity and a capital activity may by virtue of an agreement be eligible for payment as part of a management activity or as part of a capital activity, but the agreement together with any conservation plan incorporated in it shall not provide for payment to be made on both such bases in respect of the same works. . 7 For Schedule 1 to the principal Order there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to this Order. 8 For Schedule 2 to the principal Order there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to this Order. 9 The following provisions of the principal Order shall be deleted– a Articles 6 and 7; and b Schedules 3, 4, 5 and 6. Elliot Morley Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 31st July 1999 We consent, Jim Dowd Bob Ainsworth Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 9th August 1999