Agriculture Act 1967

33 Supplements to improvement and water supply grants.

(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) below, the appropriate Minister may, out of money provided by Parliament, make in respect of any grant to which this section applies a supplementary grant, payable in such manner as the appropriate Minister may determine, of an amount equal (subject to any order under section 34 of this Act) to five per cent. of the cost or expenditure by reference to which the amount of the first-mentioned grant (hereafter referred to as " the basic grant") was calculated.

(2) No grant shall be made under this section unless application for payment of the basic grant, or of the first instalment of the basic grant, was first made on or after 17th January 1966; and no grant shall be so made in any case where the amount of the basic grant exceeds or exceeded forty-five per cent. of the cost or expenditure by reference to which it was calculated.

(3) Where any grant to which this section applies is payable by instalments on the completion of parts of the work in respect of which it is made, each instalment thereof shall be treated for the purposes of subsections (1) and (2) above as if it were a separate grant.

(4) Subject to any order under section 34 of this Act, the following are the grants to which this section applies—

(a) grants made under section 30 of this Act, or under section 12 of the [1957 c. 57.] Agriculture Act 1957 (which relates to long-term improvements of agricultural land, and is superseded by the said section 30);

(b) grants made in respect of improvements of a kind to which the said section 30 applies out of money provided by Parliament by any Act passed after 27th April 1966 but before the passing of this Act;

(c) grants made under section 1(1) of the [1960 c. 22.] Horticulture Act 1960 (horticultural improvements); and

(d) in England and Wales, grants made in respect of works for the supply of water under section 15 of the [1940 c. 14.] Agriculture (Miscellaneous War Provisions) Act 1940 or section 5 of the [1944 c. 28.] Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1944.

(5) A grant may be made under this section subject to such conditions as the appropriate Minister may think fit to impose.