The Farm Woodland Scheme 1988

Requirements for persons taking part in the Scheme

8.—(1) A person whose application to enter this Scheme is approved shall thereupon enter into an undertaking with the appropriate Minister that he or his personal representatives will—

(a) carry out the work described in any plan of operations relating to any land to which his application relates, being land which he or his personal representatives occupy, within the times and in the manner specified in the plan and to the satisfaction of the appropriate Minister;

(b) maintain converted woodlands in respect of which he or they have received any grant under this Scheme in accordance with the rules and practice of good forestry to the satisfaction of the appropriate Minister throughout the period during which he or they receive payments of grant;

(c) notify the appropriate Minister in writing—

(i) of any change in occupation of the eligible land or converted woodlands which he or they occupy within one month of its occurrence;

(ii) of the termination of the agricultural business carried on by him or them on the agricultural unit which includes or is adjacent to the eligible land or converted woodlands which he or they occupy;

(d) furnish such information as to the agricultural business carried on by him or them on the agricultural unit which includes or formerly included or is or was adjacent to the eligible land or converted woodlands which he or they occupy, and as to those woodlands, as the appropriate Minister may require to evaluate the effectiveness of this Scheme.

(2) An initial entrant or a subsequent entrant or their personal representatives shall cease to be eligible for payments of grant under this Scheme if at any time he or they cease to carry on an agricultural business on the agricultural unit which includes or is adjacent to the eligible land or converted woodlands which he or they occupy.