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

Made: 6th February 2001

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 6th February 2001

Coming into force: 8th March 2001

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 18(1), (4) and (11) of the Agriculture Act 1986[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

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

Amendment of the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Western Southern Uplands) Designation Order 1993

2

For paragraph 10(b)(iii) of the Schedule to the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Western Southern Uplands) Designation Order 1993[^f00002] 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;

Signed

ROSS FINNIE — A member of the Scottish Executive — 6th February 2001

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Western Southern Uplands) Designation Order 1993 by allowing the farmer to take measures to create dykes and hedges as well as to restore dykes, stone buchts and fanks.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1986 c. 49; section 18(4) was amended by S.I. 1994/249. See section 17 for a definition of “the Minister”. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46). The requirement to obtain Treasury consent was removed by section 55 of that

[^f00002]: S.I. 1993/997; amended by S.I. 1994/3067, 1996/1968 and 3082