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What does Pasture mean? In legal practice, pasture refers to the right to graze specified livestock on land owned by someone else. In England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland it is treated as a profit à prendre (a right to take part of the natural produce of another’s land). In Scotland, the equivalent is the servitude of pasturage. It can be appurtenant to a dominant tenement or held in gross, and its scope is typically limited by the instrument or custom: class and number of animals (stint), seasons, and the area to be grazed. The right is usually created by express grant or...

Weeds Act 1959: duties, complaints, notices, powers and offences relating to injurious weeds (England and Wales)

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Practice notes

The Weeds Act 1959 (WA 1959) governs injurious weeds. It has effect in England, Wales and Scotland (as amended) but not in Northern Ireland. This Practice Note relates only to England and Wales.

What are injurious weeds?

Injurious weeds are those specified in the WA 1959:

Common ragwort (Senecio jacobaea)
Broad-leaved dock (Rumex obtusifolius)
Curled dock (Rumex crispus)
Creeping or field thistle (Cirsium arvense)
Spear thistle (Cirsium vulgare)

Each is native or long-naturalised and occurs widely across the UK.

The minister may, via regulations, designate additional injurious weeds within the scope of the WA 1959.

Defra provides guidance on identifying the injurious weeds listed in the WA 1959.

The WA 1959 regime is distinct from the framework controlling invasive non-native species.

Those weeds are native or well-established and are controlled purely to prevent agricultural harm.

By contrast, invasive non-native species are primarily dealt with under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and, in Great Britain, the Assimilated EU Regulation on invasive alien species...

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