The Nature Conservation and Amenity Lands (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 No. 170 (NI. 1)

PART III N.I. AMENITY LANDS

Grants and loans to National Trust for acquisition, etc., of amenity lands N.I.

7.—(1) The Department may, in accordance with arrangements approved by the Department of Finance and Personnel, make grants (whether by way of endowment or otherwise) or loans to the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty towards the cost of—

(a) acquiring any land for the purpose of—

(i) conserving any area of natural beauty or amenity;

(ii) establishing a nature reserve;

(iii) providing means of access to any area of the kind referred to in heads (i) and (ii);

(b) improving, maintaining or managing any land so acquired.

(2) Grants and loans under paragraph (1) shall be on such terms and conditions as the Department thinks fit.