The Agriculture Improvement (Variation) Scheme 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/1056
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Scheme may be cited as the Agriculture Improvement (Variation) Scheme 1988 and shall come into force on 5th August 1988.

Section 2 Saving

Paragraph 4 of this Scheme shall not apply in relation to any claim for grant towards expenditure incurred for the purposes of the Agriculture Improvement Scheme 1985 (“the principal Scheme”) before 5th August 1988, and this Scheme shall not affect the operation of the principal Scheme in relation to any such claim for grant.

Section 3 Variation of principal Scheme

The principal Scheme shall be varied in accordance with paragraphs 4 and 5 of this Scheme.

Section 4 Variation of principal Scheme

In paragraph 4 thereof (restrictions on payment of grant) there shall be substituted for paragraph (1)( b )(i) the following subparagraph —

(i) that expenditure is not in respect of any work, facility or transaction which is of a kind specified in paragraph 2( b ) in column 1 of Schedule 1 or, if the expenditure is in respect of any such work, facility or transaction, the expenditure has been incurred before 1st January 1991 and that Minister is satisfied that the effect of the expenditure will not be to provide for an increase of more than 300 pig places on the land occupied for the purposes of the agricultural business in relation to which the expenditure has been incurred, and that after completion of the work, facility or transaction, the number of pig places on that land will not exceed 800, and

Section 5 Variation of principal Scheme

In paragraph 7( b ) thereof (closing dates for claims) there shall be substituted for the words “on or before 30th November 1988” the words “on or before 30th November 1989”.