The Farm and Conservation Grant (Variation) Scheme 1994 No. 1302


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Scheme made by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Wales, laid before Parliament under section 29(2) of the Agriculture Act 1970, for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament within forty days beginning with the day on which the Scheme was made, subject to extension for periods of dissolution, prorogation or adjournment for more than four days.

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 1302

AGRICULTURE

HORTICULTURE

The Farm and Conservation Grant (Variation) Scheme 1994

Made

13th May 1994

Laid before Parliament

16th May 1994

Coming into force

30th June 1994

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 28 and 29 of the Agriculture Act 1970(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, with the approval of the Treasury, hereby make the following Scheme:

Title, commencement and extent

1.-(1) This Scheme may be cited as the Farm and Conservation Grant (Variation) Scheme 1994 and shall come into force on 30th June 1994.

(2) This Scheme shall apply to England and Wales.

Variation of the principal Scheme

2. The Farm and Conservation Grant Scheme 1989(2) shall be further varied in accordance with the following paragraphs of this Scheme.

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

"(vi)on or after 30th June 1994 in respect of any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in paragraph 9B in column 1 of Schedule 1;".

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

5. In Schedule 1 ("ELIGIBLE WORKS, FACILITIES AND TRANSACTIONS AND RATES OF GRANT")-

(a)after paragraph 9A, there shall be inserted the following paragraph-

"9B. Enclosure with stockproof fencing of land which is the subject of management obligations under the Habitat (Water Fringe) Regulations 1994(3) where the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food-

(a)has accepted an application for aid under those Regulations from the claimant for grant under this Scheme; or

(b)has accepted an undertaking under regulation 6(1) of those Regulations to comply with the management obligations relating to that land from the claimant for grant under this Scheme.

4040"

(b)in paragraph 10, for the words "paragraphs 1 to 9A" there shall be substituted the words "paragraphs 1 to 9B".

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 12th May 1994.

L.S.

Gillian Shephard

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Wyn Roberts

Minister of State, Welsh Office

13th May 1994

We approve,

Timothy Wood

Andrew Mackay

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

12th May 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Scheme)

This Scheme further varies the Farm and Conservation Grant Scheme 1989 and complies with Article 12 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2328/91 (OJ No. L218, 6.8.91, p.1) on improving the efficiency of agricultural structures.

In relation to expenditure incurred on or after 30th June 1994 the Scheme provides for grant to be payable towards the cost of protective fencing on land which is the subject of management obligations under the Habitat (Water Fringe) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1291) with a view to the protection or improvement of a wildlife habitat.

(2)

S.I. 1989/128, amended by S.I. 1990/1126, S.I. 1991/1338 and S.I. 1993/2901.

(3)

S.I. 1994/1291.


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