Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 1983

The Agriculture Improvement (Variation) (No. 2) Scheme 1988

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Scheme made by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, laid before Parliament under section 29(2) of the Agriculture Act 1970, for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament within forty days beginning with the day on which the Scheme was made, subject to extension for periods of dissolution, prorogation or adjournment for more than four days.

1988 No. 1983

AGRICULTURE HORTICULTURE

The Agriculture Improvement (Variation) (No. 2) Scheme 1988

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 sections 28 and 29 of the Agriculture Act 1970^[1] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, with the approval of the Treasury, hereby make the following Scheme:

Citation and commencement
    1.    This Scheme may be cited as the Agriculture Improvement (Variation) (No. 2) Scheme 1988 and shall come into force on 17th November 1988.

Variation of the Agriculture Improvement Scheme 1985
    2.    The Agriculture Improvement Scheme 1985^[2] (hereinafter called "the principal Scheme") shall be varied in accordance with paragraphs 3 to 8 below.

    3.    In paragraph 3(1) thereof (payment of grants) there shall be substituted for paragraph (a) the following paragraph—
"(a) has been incurred—
(i) on or after 1st October 1985 in respect of any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 8 and 10 in column 1 of Schedule 1 or, in relation to Scotland only, paragraph 9 in column 1 of Schedule 1;

(ii) on or after 17th November 1988 in relation to the Isles of Scilly only in respect of any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 5 in column 1 of Schedule 1A;" .

    4.    In paragraph 4(2) thereof (restrictions on payment of grant) there shall be inserted at the end the words "or, in the case of the Isles of Scilly only, has been incurred in relation to any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in paragraph 5 in column 1 of Schedule 1A".

    5.    In paragraph 5 thereof (amounts of grant)—
 (a) in sub-paragraph (2) there shall be inserted after the words "In the case of any" the word "such";
 (b) after sub-paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—
"  (4A)  Subject to the provisions of paragraphs 8 and 9, the amount of any grant payable under paragraph 3(1) towards expenditure in respect of any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 5 in column 1 of Schedule 1A shall be the percentage of that expenditure specified in relation to that work, facility or transaction in column 2 of that Schedule." .

    6.    In paragraph 7 thereof (closing dates for claims)—
 (a) after sub-paragraph (b) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—
"(bA) any work, facility or transaction which is of a kind specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 5 in column 1 of Schedule 1A unless the claim for grant is received by him on or before 16th November 1994;" ;

 (b) in sub-paragraph (c) for the words "sub-paragraph (a) or (b)" there shall be substituted the words "sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (bA)".

    7.    After paragraph 7 thereof there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
    "7A.    The appropriate Minister shall not pay grant under this Scheme in relation to any expenditure incurred on or after 17th November 1993 in respect of any work, facility or transaction which is of a kind specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 5 in column 1 of Schedule 1A." .

    8.    The Schedule to this Scheme shall be inserted after Schedule 1 to the principal Scheme as Schedule 1A thereto.

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 11th November 1988.


John MacGregor

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food


Sanderson of Bowden

Minister of State, Scottish Office

9th November 1988

Peter Walker

Secretary of State for Wales

11th November 1988
We approve,

David Maclean

Tony Durant

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

14th November 1988

[1] 1970 c. 40. back

[2] S.I. 1985/1029, amended by S.I. 1988/1056. By S.I. 1987/166 (N.I. 1) the Agriculture Improvement Scheme was revoked in so far as it formed part of the law of Northern Ireland. back

Explanatory Note