The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Southern Uplands) Designation Amendment Order 2001

Made6th February 2001

Laid before the Scottish Parliament6th February 2001

Coming into force8th March 2001

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 18(1), (4) and (11) of the Agriculture Act 19861 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement1

This Order may be cited as the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Southern Uplands) Designation Amendment Order 2001 and shall come into force on 8th March 2001.

Amendment of the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Southern Uplands) Designation Order 19932

For paragraph 10(b)(iii) of the Schedule to the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Southern Uplands) Designation Order 19932 there shall be substituted–

if the farmer so wishes, measures to restore stone buchts and fanks and measures to restore or create dykes and hedges, in each case to standards consistent with conservation interests;

ROSS FINNIEA member of the Scottish ExecutiveSt Andrew’s House,Edinburgh6th February 2001

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Southern Uplands) Designation Order 1993 by allowing the farmer to take measures to create dykes and create or restore hedges.