The Farm Waste Grant (Nitrate Vulnerable Zones) (England and Wales) Scheme 1996

Payment and amount of grants

3.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this Scheme, the appropriate Minister may make to any person one or more grants representing 25% of the expenditure incurred by him for the purposes of or in connection with the carrying on of a given agricultural business, being expenditure which—

(a) has been incurred after 16th April 1996 but before 17th April 2003 in respect of—

(i) the provision, replacement or improvement of—

(aa) facilities (including safety fencing) for the handling and storage of manure, slurry and silage effluent,

(bb) fixed disposal facilities for slurry and silage effluent, or

(cc) facilities (other than roofing) for the separation of clean and dirty water, where those facilities reduce the need to store slurry; or

(ii) any work, facility or transaction (including conservation or amenity works) incidental to any matter in respect of which a grant may be made under the foregoing provisions of this paragraph;

(b) appears to the appropriate Minister to be of a capital nature or incurred in connection with expenditure of a capital nature;

(c) is approved by the appropriate Minister for the purposes of a grant under this Scheme; and

(d) does not in aggregate exceed £85,000.

(2) Where it appears to the appropriate Minister that expenditure in respect of which a grant is claimed under sub-paragraph (1) has been incurred partly for the purposes of or in connection with the carrying on of an agricultural business and partly for other purposes he may for the purposes of a grant under that sub-paragraph treat as having been incurred for the purposes of or in connection with the carrying on of an agricultural business so much of that expenditure as appears to him to be referable to the carrying on of that agricultural business.