Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972

10 Conditions applicable to land where amalgamation or boundary adjustment has been assisted by a grant or loan

(1) Subsections (7) and (8) of section 26 of the [1967 c. 22.] Agriculture Act 1967 (which apply the conditions in Schedule 3 to that Act to agricultural units where certain grants have been paid) shall not apply in relation to the payment of—

(a) any grant under a scheme made under that section or section 27 of that Act after the passing of this Act; or

(b) any grant under section 29 of the Agriculture Act 1970 in respect of any work or facility certified under the said section 26 in connection with an amalgamation or boundary adjustment approved under any scheme made under the said section 26 after the passing of this Act.

(2) Where, by reason of the payment of a grant under a scheme made under the said section 27 before the passing of this Act, any land became subject to the provisions of the said Schedule 3, that land shall cease to be subject to those provisions if, by virtue of transitional provisions in a scheme made under that section after the passing of this Act, the approval in consequence of which the grant was paid falls to be treated as if given under the latter scheme.

(3) Subsections (6) and (7) of section 28 of the said Act of 1967 (which apply the conditions in the said Schedule 3 to agricultural units where loans or guarantees have been made or given under that section) shall not apply in relation to any loan or guarantee in connection with an amalgamation or boundary adjustment approved under a scheme made under the said section 26 after the passing of this Act or treated by virtue of transitional provisions in such a scheme as approved thereunder.

(4) In making a grant under the said section 26 the appropriate Minister may impose such conditions as he thinks fit; and any such conditions, and any conditions imposed under section 28(5) of the said Act of 1967 or section 29(3) of the said Act of 1970, may require the recipient of the grant or loan, or the person whose indebtedness is guaranteed, to make such payments or repayments to the appropriate Minister in such circumstances as may be specified in the conditions.

(5) Paragraph 1 of the said Schedule 3 (duration of conditions imposed by that Schedule) shall have effect, and be deemed always to have had effect, with the substitution for the words " fifteen years " of the words " five years ".