The Agriculture and Horticulture Grant (Variation) (No. 2) Scheme 1984

Citation and commencement

1.  This scheme may be cited as the Agriculture and Horticulture Grant (Variation) (No. 2) Scheme 1984 and shall come into operation on 12th December 1984.

Saving

2.  This scheme shall not apply in relation to any claim for grant towards expenditure incurred for the purposes of the Agriculture and Horticulture Grant Scheme 1980(1) (hereinafter called “the principal scheme”) before 12th December 1984; and this scheme shall not affect the operation of the principal scheme in relation to any such claim for grant.

Variation of principal scheme

3.  The principal scheme shall be further varied in accordance with paragraphs 4 to 8 of this scheme.

4.  In paragraph 3(1) thereof (payment of grant) there shall be substituted for subparagraph (a) the following subparagraph—

“(a) has been incurred in respect of any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in—

(i) any of paragraphs 1 to 6, 7(i), 7(ii), 8 to 11, 12(i), 12(ii) and 13 to 17 of column 1 of the Schedule;

(ii) in relation to Scotland only, paragraph 7(iii) of column 1 of the Schedule;

(iii) in relation to Northern Ireland only, paragraph 12(iii) of column 1 of the Schedule;”.

5.  In paragraph 6(1) thereof (restrictions on payment of grant) there shall be substituted for the amount “52,599 ECU” the amount “40,000 ECU” and there shall be inserted at the end the words “except to the extent that such excess expenditure or excess aggregate expenditure has been incurred in relation to any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in paragraph 2(ii), 13(ii), 13(iii) or 16(ii) of column 1 of the Schedule and does not exceed the further sum of 39,379 ECU”.

6.  In paragraph 7(1) thereof (restrictions on payment of grant) there shall be substituted for the words from “exceeds 160,000 ECU” to the end the words

“exceeds 80,000 ECU, that Minister shall not pay grant towards so much of that expenditure or, as the case may be, that aggregate as exceeds that figure except to the extent that such excess expenditure or excess aggregate expenditure has been incurred in relation to any work, facility or transaction—

(i) of a kind specified in paragraph 2(ii) or 16(ii) of column 1 of the Schedule and does not exceed the further sum of 130,000 ECU; or

   

(ii) of a kind specified in paragraph 13(ii) or 13(iii) of column 1 of the Schedule and does not exceed the further sum of 80,000 ECU.”.

7.  In paragraph 9(1) thereof (amounts of grant)—

(a) in subparagraph (a) there shall be substituted for the words “paragraphs 1 to 5, 7(iii) and 13 to 16” the words “paragraphs 2, 3, 7(iii) and 13 to 16”;

(b) in subparagraph (b) there shall be substituted for the words “paragraphs 6, 7(i), 7(ii) and 8 to 12” the words “paragraphs 1, 4 to 6, 7(i), 7(ii) and 8 to 12”;

(c) in subparagraph (bA)(ii) there shall be substituted for the words “paragraphs 6, 7(i), 7(ii) and 9 to 12” the words “paragraphs 1, 4 to 6, 7(i), 7(ii) and 9 to 12”.

8.  The Schedule to this scheme shall be substituted for the Schedule to the principal scheme (eligible works, facilities and transactions and rates of grant).

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 6th December 1984.

L.S.

Michael Jopling

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

George Younger

Secretary of State for Scotland

6th December 1984

Nicholas Edwards

Secretary of State for Wales

6th December 1984

We approve,

T. Garel-Jones

Donald Thompson

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

6th December 1984