- Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 828
The Farm Woodland (Amendment) Scheme 1997
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1997 No. 828
| Approved by both Houses of Parliament |
| Made | 13th March 1997 | ||
| Coming into force in accordance with paragraph 1 |
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 2 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 of which a draft has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, each House of Parliament:
Title and commencement
1 . This Scheme may be cited as the Farm Woodland (Amendment) Scheme 1997 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made or 1st April 1997 if later.
Amendment of the Farm Woodland Scheme 1988
2 . - (1) The Farm Woodland Scheme 1988[2] shall be amended in accordance with the following sub-paragraphs of this paragraph.
(2) Paragraph 3(2)(b) (requirements for entry into the Scheme) shall be deleted except for the word "; and" at the end.
(3) In paragraph 8 (requirements for persons taking part in the Scheme) -
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(a) in each of sub-paragraphs (1)(c) and (d), after the words "agricultural business" there shall be added the words ", if any,"; and
(b) sub-paragraph (2) shall be deleted.
(4) Schedule 1 (rates of grant for categories of woodlands) shall be replaced by the following Schedule -
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
| Categories of converted woodlands | Amount of grant payable per hectare per annum |
| £ | |
|
Converted woodlands formerly arable land - if severely disadvantaged land before conversion |
120 |
|
if disadvantaged land before conversion |
180 |
|
if neither severely disadvantaged nor disadvantaged land before conversion |
230 |
|
Converted woodlands formerly improved grassland - if severely disadvantaged land before conversion |
110 |
|
if disadvantaged land before conversion |
160 |
|
if neither severely disadvantaged nor disadvantaged land before conversion |
200 |
|
Converted woodlands converted from land in agricultural use (other than use as arable land or improved grassland) which was either severely disadvantaged land or disadvantaged land before conversion |
30 |
Tony Baldry
Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
10th March 1997
Lindsay
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
11th March 1997
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Jonathan Evans[a]
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
11th March 1997
We approve
Roger Knapman
Patrick McLoughlin
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
13th March 1997
(This note is not part of the Scheme)
This Scheme amends the Farm Woodland Scheme 1988 ("the principal Scheme"). This Scheme applies to Great Britain.
The principal Scheme complies with Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2080/92 instituting a Community aid scheme for forestry measures in agriculture (OJ No. L215, 30.7.92, p.96).
This Scheme removes the requirement for participants in the scheme to continue to run an agricultural business, and for successors to initial entrants to run an agricultural business (paragraph 2). The Scheme also amends the rates of grant payable according to the use of the land prior to conversion to woodland (paragraph 2).
Notes:
[1] 1988 c. 16. The expression
the appropriate authorityupon whom the powers of section 2 are conferred is defined in section 2(6) and 1(5) of that Act and is to be read with the definition of
the appropriate Ministerin those sections. Section 2 was amended, in relation to Scotland, by section 3(2) of the Crofter Forestry (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 18). back
[2] S.I. 1988/1291, amended by S.I. 1991/1631, S.I. 1992/905. back
[a] This statutory Instrument was amended by correction slip. "Jonathan Evans" replaced "Jonathan Grans". back
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