The Set-Aside Regulations 1988

includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming, livestock breeding and keeping and freshwater fish farming, the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, osier land, reed beds, market gardens and nursery grounds, and “agricultural” shall be construed accordingly;

means an application for aid under regulation 5 and “applicant” and “apply” shall be construed accordingly;

means crops of a type listed in Schedule 1;

means land used for the production of arable crops;

means— (a) a person whose application has been accepted;

means— (a) in relation to England, the 3 volumes of maps numbered 1 to 3, each such volume being marked “volume of maps of less-favoured farming areas in England”, and with the number of the volume, dated 3rd April 1984, signed and sealed by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and deposited at the offices of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food at Great Westminster House, Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AE;

means a person who on the date of the submission of his application occupies a holding comprising arable land as an owner or tenant and who at the commencement of the set-aside period will have so occupied that holding for a period of at least twelve months;

means land which is occupied as a unit for agricultural purposes;

means— (a) in England and Wales, in relation to the tenant of a holding or part of a holding, any person who either solely or jointly owns or has a superior tenancy of that holding or part;

means land— (a) which is situated in an area included in the list of less-favoured farming areas adopted by the Council or the Commission of the European Communities under Article 2 of Council Directive No. 75/268/EEC on mountain and hill farming and farming in certain less-favoured areas, and (b) which— (a) is, in the opinion of the appropriate Minister, inherently suitable for extensive livestock production but not for the production of crops in quantity materially greater than that necessary to feed such livestock as are capable of being maintained on such land, and whose agricultural production is, in the opinion of the appropriate Minister, restricted in its range by, or by any combination of, soil, relief, aspect or climate, or (ii) is situated in the Isles of Scilly, which land is within the area shaded blue or pink on the designated maps;

means a special planning board or a joint planning board or a National Park Committee constituted or re-constituted in accordance with Part I of Schedule 17 to the Local Government Act 1972;

means land which is fallowed for the whole of the set-aside period;

means the period commencing on 1st July 1987 and ending on 30th June 1988;

means crops of a type listed in List A in Schedule 1;

means land used for the production of relevant arable crops;

means land fallowed as part of the arable rotation;

means any land forming part of the set-aside area;

means any area of land notified by the Nature Conservancy Council under the provisions of section 28(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981;

means— (a) in England and Wales, a person who occupies a holding or part of a holding either— (a) under an agreement for the letting of land for a tenancy from year to year;

means— (a) in relation to England, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;

means the area of arable land which a beneficiary undertakes to set aside under the provisions of these Regulations;

means— (a) the obligations assumed by a beneficiary by virtue of the undertakings referred to in regulation 3;

means— (a) in relation to an application accepted by the appropriate Minister in 1988, the period commencing on the date of acceptance of that application or 1st October 1988, whichever is later, and ending on 30th September 1993;

means the scheme made by the Forestry Commissioners and published in June 1988 under which the Forestry Commissioners enter into agreements to make grants pursuant to section 1 of the Forestry Act 1979 for and in connection with the use and management of land for forestry purposes.

means, in relation to arable land, to withdraw that land from agricultural production;