Agriculture Act 1967

Promotion of agricultural investment U.K.

31, 32. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 30–32, 36, 37(3)(5) repealed by Agriculture Act 1970 (c. 40), ss. 29(6)(7), 113(3), Sch. 5 Pt. I

33 Supplements to improvement and water supply grants. U.K.

(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) below, the appropriate Minister may, out of money provided by Parliament, make in respect of any grant to which this section applies a supplementary grant, payable in such manner as the appropriate Minister may determine, of an amount equal (subject to any order under section 34 of this Act) to five per cent. of the cost or expenditure by reference to which the amount of the first-mentioned grant (hereafter referred to as “the basic grant”) was calculated.

(2) No grant shall be made under this section unless application for payment of the basic grant, or of the first instalment of the basic grant, was first made on or after 17th January 1966; and no grant shall be so made in any case where the amount of the basic grant exceeds or exceeded forty-five per cent. of the cost or expenditure by reference to which it was calculated.

(3) Where any grant to which this section applies is payable by instalments on the completion of parts of the work in respect of which it is made, each instalment thereof shall be treated for the purposes of subsections (1) and (2) above as if it were a separate grant.

(4) Subject to any order under section 34 of this Act, the following are the grants to which this section applies—

(a), (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

(c) grants made under section 1(1) of the M1 Horticulture Act 1960 (horticultural improvements); . . . F3

(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3

(5) A grant may be made under this section subject to such conditions as the appropriate Minister may think fit to impose.

Textual Amendments

F2 S. 33(4)(a)(b) repealed by Agriculture Act 1970 (c. 40), ss. 29(6)(7), 113 (3), Sch. 5 Pt. I

F3 Word and s. 33(4)(d) repealed by Agriculture Act 1970 (c. 40), ss. 29(6)(7), 113(3), Sch. 5 Pt. I

Marginal Citations

M1 1960 c. 22.

34 Power to vary rates, and extend scope, of grants for agricultural investment. U.K.

(1) Orders may from time to time be made under this section—

(a) varying, either generally or as respects expenditure or, as the case may be, basic grants of a description therein specified, the rate at which grant is payable under . . . F4 section 33 of this Act;

(b), (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5

(2) An order under this section—

(a) may be made for England and Wales, for Scotland, for Northern Ireland, or for any two or all of those parts of the United Kingdom jointly,

(b) shall be made with the consent of the Treasury, and by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State jointly if it is made for Great Britain or the United Kingdom, and the appropriate Minister in any other case,

(c) may contain such incidental and supplemental provisions as appear appropriate to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, to the appropriate Minister,

(d) may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order,

(e) shall be made by statutory instrument.

(3) A statutory instrument containing an order under subsection (1)(a) above, . . . F4 providing for the payment of grants at a rate other than that specified in section . . . F4 33(1) of this Act, shall be laid before the House of Commons after being made, and the order shall cease to have effect at the end of twenty-eight days after that on which it is made (but without prejudice to anything previously done under the order or to the making of a new order) unless before the end of that period the order is approved by resolution of that House.

In reckoning any period of twenty-eight days for the purposes of this subsection, no account shall be taken of any time during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued or during which the House of Commons is adjourned for more than four days.

(4) A statutory instrument containing any other order under subsection (1) above shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons.

Textual Amendments

F4 Words repealed by Agriculture Act 1970 (c. 40), ss. 29(6)(7), 113(3), Sch. 5 Pt. I

F5 S. 34(1)(b)(c) repealed by Agriculture Act 1970 (c. 40), ss. 29(6), 113(3), Sch. 5 Pt. I

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 34(2): Functions of the Secretary of State or the Secretary of State for Wales transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (27.12.1999) by S.I. 1999/3141, arts. 2(3)(5) (with art. 3)