The Agriculture Improvement (Amendment) Regulations 1987

• Citation: S.I. 1987/1950
• Sections: 4

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Agriculture Improvement (Amendment) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st January 1988.

Section 2

The Agriculture Improvement Regulations 1985 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Section 3

For regulation 7 thereof (closing date for submission of improvement plans) there shall be substituted the following regulation—

(7)

(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, the appropriate Minister shall not approve an improvement plan under these regulations where the plan is received by him after 31st December 1994 or such later date as that Minister may in special circumstances permit.

(2) The appropriate Minister shall not approve an improvement plan under these regulations which includes proposed expenditure in connection with any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in paragraph 12 or 13 of column 1 of the Schedule where that plan is received by him after 1st January 1988.

Section 4

For regulation 8 thereof (variation and withdrawal of improvement plans) there shall be substituted the following regulation—

(8)

(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, the appropriate Minister may, on the written request of the person currently responsible for the carrying on of an agricultural business to which an improvement plan relates, vary or withdraw the approval of that plan, where the request is made at least two years after the original approval of the plan.

(2) The appropriate Minister may, on the written request of the person currently responsible for the carrying on of an agricultural business to which an improvement plan relates, vary or withdraw the approval of that plan at any time after the original approval of the plan, provided that—

(a) the plan includes proposed expenditure in connection with any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in paragraph 12 or 13 of column 1 of the Schedule;

(b) the request for variation or withdrawal of approval of the plan is received by the appropriate Minister before 1st July 1988;

(c) the person who requests variation or withdrawal of approval of the plan has submitted a farm diversification plan for approval under the Farm Diversification Grant Scheme 1987 .