Hill Farming Act 1946

8 Requirements, in connection with improvement schemes, as to observance of rules of good husbandry, etc.

(1) The fact that a person to whom an improvement grant in respect of the cost of any work is payable, or would otherwise be payable or has been paid, has in the opinion of the appropriate Minister, neglected, during the period whilst the work was being done, to do other work for the benefit of the land for the benefit of which the improvement was intended, or of contiguous or adjacent land, being work which he ought to have done in the ordinary course in accordance with the rules of good husbandry or with practice customary in the course of good estate management, shall be a ground on which the appropriate Minister may reduce or withhold the grant, or, if it has been paid, may recover from that person the grant or such part of it as appears to the appropriate Minister to be proper.

(2) The appropriate Minister may, as a condition of approving a hill farming land improvement scheme, require the making, by a person approved by him, of a record of the condition of land for the benefit of which improvements are thereby proposed containing particulars as respects such matters as ought in his opinion to be recorded in connection with the scheme, and the cost incurred in the making of such a record shall be deemed to be part of the cost of work done in accordance with an approved hill farming land improvement scheme for the purpose of subsection (1) of section one of this Act.