The Farm and Conservation Grant (Amendment) Regulations 1993

• Citation: S.I. 1993/2900
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Title, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Farm and Conservation Grant (Amendment) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st December 1993.

(2) In these Regulations—

(a) “the principal Regulations ” means the Farm and Conservation Grant Regulations 1991 ;

(b) “the appropriate Minister” has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations.

Section 2 Savings

Regulation 5 below shall not apply to—

(a) any improvement plan approved under the principal Regulations before 1st December 1993; or

(b) any request for the variation of such a plan or any application for approval of an improvement plan received before that date by the appropriate Minister,

and that provision of these Regulations shall not affect the operation of the principal Regulations in relation to any such plan, request or application.

Section 3 Amendment of the principal Regulations

The principal Regulations shall be further amended in accordance with regulations 4 and 5 below.

Section 4 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In regulation 12 (claims for grant and closing dates for incurring certain expenditure)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (2), for the date “17th November 1993” there shall be substituted the date “17th November 1994”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (3), for the date “16th November 1994” there shall be substituted the date “16th November 1995”.

Section 5 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In Schedule 1 (“ELIGIBLE AGRICULTURAL WORKS, FACILITIES AND TRANSACTIONS AND RATES OF GRANT”)—

(a) in each of paragraphs 1(a) and (c)(i), 2, 3, and 4, in column 2, for the figure “40” there shall be substituted the figure “25”, and in column 3, for the figure “50” there shall be substituted the figure “30”;

(b) in paragraph 1(b), in each of columns 2 and 3, for the figure “50” there shall be substituted the figure “25”;

(c) in paragraph 1(c)(ii), in column 3, for the figure “50” there shall be substituted the figure “30”;

(d) in paragraph 5, in column 2, for the figure “35” there shall be substituted the figure “20”, and in column 3, for the figure “35” there shall be substituted the figure “25”.