Amendment of the Agricultural Business Development Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 200014.

(1)

The Agricultural Business Development Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 20009 are amended as follows.

(2)

For regulation 5(2)(g), there shall be substituted, as follows:–

“(g)

confirmation–

(i)

as to what public funding (if any) towards the cost of the measure has been sought, otherwise than under these Regulations; and

(ii)

that it is not intended to seek any public funding towards such costs, otherwise than under these Regulations”.

(3)

In regulation 6(3)(e), there shall be inserted before the words “other public funding”, the words “subject to paragraph (3A) below,”.

(4)

After regulation 6(3), there shall be inserted, as follows:–

“(3A)

Where an applicant has sought public funding in respect of the measure concerned otherwise than under these Regulations, but the public funding so sought was not obtained, the duty of the Scottish Ministers to be satisfied as to the matters set out in paragraph (3)(e) above shall not apply in relation to such public funding so sought and not obtained.”.