This Order may be cited as the Agriculture and Fisheries (Financial Assistance) (Northern Ireland) Order 1987.

This Order shall come into operation on 1st April 1987.

The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) [1954 c. 33 (N.I.) ] 1954 shall apply to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

In this Order “the Department” means the Department of Agriculture.

Subject to paragraph (4), in this Order “agriculture” and “agricultural land” have the same meanings as in section 43(1) of the Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland) [1949 c. 2 (N.I.) ] 1949.

For the purposes of this Order, the definition of “agriculture” in the said section 43(1) shall have effect as if the words “ osier land, ” were inserted after the words “meadow land,”.