Paragraphs 3(1) and 12
SCHEDULEELIGIBLE OPERATIONS
1. Subject to the provisions of this Schedule and of paragraph 7 of this Scheme, the approved cost of any operation specified in the following list is an operation under this Scheme:–
| 1. | erection or improvement of agricultural buildings; |
| 2. | works associated with agricultural buildings, including yards, hard standings, dungsteads and slurry stores; |
| 3. | restoration of derelict land (excluding heathland and moorland) by regeneration, re seeding, laying down to permanent pasture, bracken control or reconditioning; |
| 4. | formation or improvement of access tracks to land improvement areas; |
| 5. | field drainage including under drainage, hill drainage and ditching; |
| 6. | arterial drainage; |
| 7. | provision or improvement of silos (excluding grain silos); |
| 8. | erection or improvement of shelters for the temporary housing, sheltering and feeding of out wintered livestocks; |
| 9. | provision or improvement of facilities for the organised feeding of out wintered livestock including permanently fixed troughs and feed barriers and associated concrete bases; |
| 10. | provision or improvement of equipment for the handling and treatment of livestock; |
| 11. | provision of fences, hedges, walls, gates or cattle grids; |
| 12. | planting of shelter belts; |
| 13. | provision or improvement of water supplies; |
| 14. | provision or improvement of a mains electricity connection or supply; |
| 15. | supply and installation of an electricity generator; |
| 16. | provision of a gas supply; |
| 17. | provision of electrical equipment; |
| 18. | provision or improvement of roads, bridges, culverts or boat slips. |
2. The amount of any grant payable under this Scheme towards the approved cost of carrying out any operation which is incidental to the carrying out of an operation of any kind specified in this Schedule or necessary or proper in the carrying out of that operation or for securing the full benefit thereof shall be calculated at the rate of grant appropriate to that in accordance with the provisions of this Schedule.
3. In such cases and subject to such conditions as the Scottish Ministers may from time to time determine, the amount of any cost towards which grant is payable under this Scheme shall, if the applicant so elects, be taken for the purpose of determining the amount of the grant as such standard amount as the Scottish Ministers may from time to time decide.