The Land Management Contracts (Menu Scheme) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006
| Year | 2006 |
2006 No. 213
AGRICULTURE
The Land Management Contracts (Menu Scheme) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006
Made 20th April 2006
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 21th April 2006
Coming into force 15th May 2006
The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19721and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Land Management Contracts (Menu Scheme) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006 and come into force on 15th May 2006.
Amendment of the Land Management Contracts (Menu Scheme) (Scotland) Regulations 2005
2. The Land Management Contracts (Menu Scheme) (Scotland) Regulations 20052are amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 5.
Amendment of regulation 3
3. In regulation 3(1) (applications for aid) for “(4)” substitute “(2)”.
Amendment of Schedule 1
4. In Schedule 1 (menu option activities, eligibility conditions and rates of payment)–
(a) in option 2 (membership of quality assurance and organic schemes) in column 2 (activities and eligibility conditions)–
(i) in paragraph (a) for “2006” substitute “in the scheme year”; and
(ii) in paragraph (b) for “2005 and 16th January 2006” substitute “and 16th January in the scheme year”;
(b) in option 3 (training) in column 2 in paragraph (a) omit “in a secondary school, Further Education College or Higher Education establishment”;
(c) in option 4 (farm and woodland visits) in column 2 for “woodland manager” substitute “representative of the business”;
(d) in option 5 (off farm and woodland talks) in column 2 in paragraph (1) between “An applicant is eligible for payment under this Menu Option if the applicant” and “conducts” insert “or representative of the business”;
(e) in option 7 (management of linear features: hedgerows and hedgerow trees; ditches; and dykes) in column 2–
(i) in paragraph (3)(ii)(a) (ditches) after “ditches” where it first appears insert “at least once within the 5 year period but”;
(ii) in paragraph (3)(iii)(a) (dykes) for “drystone walls; and” substitute “drystane dykes;”;
(iii) in paragraph (3)(iii)(b) for “wall” substitute “dyke”; and
(iv) at the end of paragraph (3)(iii)(b) insert–
“; and
(c)
(c) drystane dykes should be maintained with material traditional to the locality and to a standard and style normally found there”;
(f) in option 8 (management of moorland grazing) in column 2 in paragraph (2)(a) after “interests” insert “, which plan must be in place by the start of the scheme year”;
(g) in option 9 (management of rush pasture) in column 2 in...
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