The Apple and Pear Orchard Grubbing Up Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998
These Regulations revoke the Apple Orchard Grubbing Up Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991 (S.R. 1991 No. 157), the Apple Orchard Grubbing Up (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994 (S.R. 1994 No. 430) and the Apple Orchard Grubbing Up (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (S.R. 1995 No. 15) (regulation 3). Those Grubbing Up Regulations provided for the administration and enforcement of a scheme for the payment of a premium to growers of apples who grubbed up their apple trees. The scheme was established for three separate periods between 1991 and 1995. Restrictions apply in relation to the grubbed land and areas of retained orchards and their occupiers and owners for the time being for fifteen years after recipients of premium had grubbed up apple trees under the scheme. These restrictions are preserved by regulation 4(2).