Schedule 18: Discharge or modification of obligations under conservation covenants Part 2: Modification by Upper Tribunal Power to modify on application by landowner or responsible body
Paragraphs 6 and 7 make provision for application for modification, and provide that the Tribunal must add as parties as necessary, depending upon who has made the application: the responsible body and everyone who is currently bound by or entitled to the benefit of the obligation concerned.
	Paragraph 8 has the effect that the Upper Tribunal’s powers to modify an obligation under a conservation covenant cannot be exercised so as to produce a result which could not have been achieved by the original agreement (because inconsistent with the requirements of section 117(1)(a)). For example, it would not be possible to modify an obligation in such a way that it no longer served a conservation purpose.