The Farm and Conservation Grant (Variation) Scheme 1991

Variation of the principal Scheme

5.—(1) In paragraph 4(1) (restrictions on payment of grant)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (d), for the words from “reference quantity” to the end of the sub-paragraph there shall be substituted the following:

• “quota, as defined in the Dairy Produce Quotas Regulations 1989(1), of the person carrying on the agricultural business to which the expenditure relates”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (e)(i), for the words “ancillary farm business” there shall be substituted “qualifying business”; and

(c) sub-paragraph (f) shall be omitted.

(2) In paragraph 4(3), for the figure “ £35,000” there shall be substituted “ £42,500”, and for the figure “ £74,000” there shall be substituted “ £85,000”.

(3) In paragraph 4(5)—

(a) there shall be inserted the following definition:

““qualifying business” means a business consisting in the pursuit of a qualifying activity where that business is carried on by the person also carrying on the eligible agricultural business on the same or adjacent land;”; and

(b) the definition of “ancillary farm business” shall be omitted.

(1)

S.I. 1989/380, amended by S.I. 1990/132, 1990/664, 1990/784.