The Farm and Conservation Grant (Variation) Scheme 1993

• Citation: S.I. 1993/2901
• Sections: 7

Section 1 Title, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Scheme may be cited as the Farm and Conservation Grant (Variation) Scheme 1993 and shall come into force on 1st December 1993.

(2) In this Scheme “the principal Scheme” means the Farm and Conservation Grant Scheme 1989 .

Section 2 Savings

Paragraph 7(a)-(e) of this Scheme shall not apply in relation to any claim for grant towards expenditure incurred for the purposes of the principal Scheme before 1st December 1993 and those provisions of this Scheme shall not affect the operation of the principal Scheme in relation to any such claim for grant.

Section 3 Variation of the principal Scheme

The principal Scheme shall be further varied in accordance with the following paragraphs of this Scheme.

Section 4 Variation of the principal Scheme

In paragraph 3(1) (payment of grants), after sub-paragraph (a)(iv) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph:

(v) on or after 1st December 1993 in respect of any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in paragraph 9A in column 1 of Schedule 1;

Section 5 Variation of the principal Scheme

In paragraph 5 (amounts of grant), in sub-paragraphs (1) and (4), for the words “paragraphs 1 to 9” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs 1 to 9A”.

Section 6 Variation of the principal Scheme

(1) In paragraph 7(2) (closing dates for claims and incurring certain expenditure), in sub-paragraph (c), for the date “16th November 1994” there shall be substituted the date “16th November 1995”.

(2) In paragraph 7(3), in sub-paragraph (b), for the date “17th November 1993” there shall be substituted the date “17th November 1994”.

Section 7 Variation of the principal Scheme

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

(a) in each of paragraphs 1(a) and (d)(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)—

(i) in column 1, the words “(except those specified in sub-paragraph (c) below)” shall be deleted; and

(ii) in columns 2 and 3, for the figure “50” there shall be substituted the figure “25”;

(c) paragraph 1(c) shall be deleted;

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

(e) 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”;

(f) after the entries numbered 9, there shall be inserted the following entries in columns 1, 2 and 3—

(9A) Provision and installation of means of public access to agricultural land (including field gates, stiles and footbridges).

(g) in paragraph 10, for the words “paragraphs 1 to 9” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs 1 to 9A”.