The Farm Business Non-Capital Grant (Variation) Scheme 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 1406

AGRICULTURE

The Farm Business Non-Capital Grant (Variation) Scheme 1991

Made

12th June 1991

Laid before Parliament

27th June 1991

Coming into force

18th July 1991

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1 of the Farm Land and Rural Development Act 1988(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, with the approval of the Treasury, hereby make the following Scheme:

Title, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Scheme may be cited as the Farm Business Non-Capital Grant (Variation) Scheme 1991 and shall come into force on 18th July 1991.

(2) In this Scheme “the principal Scheme” means the Farm Business Non-Capital Grant Scheme 1988(2).

Variation of the principal Scheme

2.  The principal Scheme shall be varied in accordance with the following paragraph of this Scheme.

3.  In paragraph 2(1) (interpretation), for the definition of “designated maps” there shall be substituted the following definition:

• ““designated maps” means—

  (a)

  in relation to England, the 3 volumes of maps numbered 1 to 3, each such volume being marked “volume of maps of less-favoured farming areas in England” and with the number of the volume, dated 20th May 1991, signed and sealed by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and deposited at the offices of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food at Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR;

  (b)

  in relation to Wales, the 2 volumes of maps numbered 1 and 2, both volumes being marked “volume of maps of less-favoured farming areas in Wales” and with the number of the volume, dated 20th May 1991, signed by the Secretary of State for Wales and deposited at the offices of the Welsh Office Agriculture Department at Trawsgoed, Aberystwyth, Dyfed SY23 4HT;

  (c)

  in relation to Scotland, the 4 maps numbered 1 to 4, each such map being marked “map of less-favoured farming areas in Scotland” and with the number of the map, dated 15th May 1991, signed by the Secretary of State for Scotland and deposited at the offices of the Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department at Pentland House, 47 Robb’s Loan, Edinburgh EH14 1TW;”.

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 12th June 1991.

L.S.

John Selwyn Gummer

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Strathclyde

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

5th June 1991

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

5th June 1991

We approve,

Gregory Knight

Irvine Patnick

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

6th June 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Scheme)

This Scheme varies the Farm Business Non-Capital Grant Scheme 1988 “the principal Scheme”) by extending the areas of land which are treated for the purposes of the principal Scheme as less-favoured areas, in which grant is available for feasibility study plans or marketing plans in connection with the specified farm business of the provision of horses and ponies for hire. Less-favoured areas are defined by reference to designated maps, and accord with the list of less-favoured farming areas contained in Council Directive 84/169/EEC (OJ No. L82, 26.3.84, p.67) as amended by Commission Decision 91/25/EEC (OJ No. L16, 22.1.91, p.25) (paragraph 3). The maps are available for inspection during normal office hours at the addresses specified in the definition of designated maps. Copies of the maps may also be inspected during normal office hours at any Regional or Divisional Office of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, at any Divisional Office of the Welsh Office Agriculture Department and at any Area Office of the Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department.

(1)

1988 c. 16.

(2)

S.I. 1988/1125.