The Agricultural Business Development Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Agricultural Business Development Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 5th July 2004.

Amendment of the Agricultural Business Development Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2000

2.—(1) The Agricultural Business Development Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2000(1) are amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) In regulation 2 (1) (Interpretation), for the definition of “eligible person” substitute–

“eligible person” means–

(a)

in relation to any measure–

(i)

a person who is a legal occupier of an agricultural unit and who operates an eligible business on that unit; or

(ii)

a person authorised to act on behalf of such legal occupier; and

(b)

in relation to a measure specified in Part II or Part III of the Schedule–

(i)

where such legal occupier is a natural person, any member of the immediate family of the legal occupier who resides on or adjacent to that agricultural unit and is acting with the legal occupier’s consent; or

(ii)

where such legal occupier is a partnership or company, any member of the immediate family of a partner in that partnership or a director or secretary of that company who resides on or adjacent to that agricultural unit and is acting with the legal occupier’s consent except where that immediate family member is also a partner in that partnership or a director or secretary of that company;.

ROSS FINNIE

A member of the Scottish Executive

Pentland House, Edinburgh

7th June 2004