The Farm Diversification Grant (Variation) Scheme 1988

Scheme made by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, laid before Parliament under section 29(2) of the Agriculture Act 1970 for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament within forty days beginning with the day on which the Scheme was made, subject to extension for periods of dissolution, prorogation or adjournment for more than four days.

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1398

AGRICULTURE

The Farm Diversification Grant (Variation) Scheme 1988

Made

2nd August 1988

Laid before Parliament

16th August 1988

Coming into force

1st October 1988

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 28 and 29 of the Agriculture Act 1970(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, with the approval of the Treasury, hereby make the following Scheme:

1.  This Scheme may be cited as the Farm Diversification Grant (Variation) Scheme 1988 and shall come into force on 1st October 1988.

2.  The Farm Diversification Grant Scheme 1987(2) shall be varied in accordance with the following provisions of this Scheme.

3.  In paragraph 5(2) thereof (restrictions on approval of farm diversification plans) there shall be inserted the following subparagraph—

“(e) proposed expenditure in relation to any work, facility or transaction—

(i) which is of a kind specified in item 7(a) to (d) in Column 2 of the Schedule in respect of an ancillary farm business of a kind specified in paragraph 5 of Column 1 of the Schedule (provision of facilities for sports and recreation) or in respect of the letting of any land for the purposes of such a business; or

(ii) which is of a kind specified in item 6(b) or (c) in Column 2 of the Schedule in respect of an ancillary farm business of a kind specified in paragraph 6 of Column 1 of the Schedule (provision of educational facilities relating to farming and the countryside and to farm-based industry) or in respect of the letting of any land for the purposes of such a business; or

(iii) which is necessary or incidental to the carrying out of any work, facility or transaction of a kind mentioned in (i) and (ii) above for any of the purposes mentioned in (i) and (ii) above, where that work, facility or transaction is to be carried out on any set-aside land within the meaning of the Set-Aside Regulations 1988(3).”

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 28th July 1988.

L.S.

John MacGregor

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sanderson of Bowden

Minister of State, Scottish Office

28th July 1988

Peter Walker

Secretary of State for Wales

2nd August 1988

We approve,

Mark Lennox-Boyd

David Lightbown

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

25th July 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Scheme)

This Scheme varies the Farm Diversification Grant Scheme 1987 by providing that the Minister will not approve farm diversification plans containing proposals for the carrying out of certain land improvement works on land which has been withdrawn from agricultural production under the Set-Aside Regulations 1988 (regulation 3).

(1)

1970 c. 40. Section 28 was amended by section 22 of the Agriculture Act 1986 (c. 49).

(2)

1987/1949.

(3)

1988/1352.