The Agriculture Improvement (Variation) (No. 3) Scheme 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Scheme)

This Scheme further varies the Agriculture Improvement Scheme 1985 (“the principal Scheme”) and complies with Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 797/85 (OJ No. L93, 30.3.85, p. 1) on improving the efficiency of agricultural structures, as amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1760/87 (OJ No. L167, 26.6.87, p. 1).

This Scheme provides that expenditure incurred on or after 29th November 1988 is not generally eligible for grant (paragraph 4).

The Scheme also brings forward the closing date for receipt of claims for grant from 1st April 1993 to 31st May 1989 in most cases (paragraph 3(b)). A new closing date for receipt of claims is introduced where on 31st May 1989 the agricultural business to which the claim relates is the subject of a current development plan approved under the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Regulations 1980 (S.I. 1980/1298) or the Farm and Horticulture Development Regulations 1981 (S.I. 1981/1707) or of a current improvement plan approved under the Agriculture Improvement Regulations 1985 (S.I. 1985/1266) (paragraph 3(a)).

In the case of arterial drainage works in Scotland, to be eligible for grant the written application for approval must be made before 29th November 1988 (paragraph 4) and the deadline for receipt of claims is 31st May 1991 (paragraph 3(a)).

The Scheme does not alter the position in relation to heated glasshouses and glasshouse heating systems and works, facilities or transactions in the Isles of Scilly of a kind specified in column 1 of Schedule 1A to the principal Scheme.