The Crofting Counties Agricultural Grants (Scotland) Amendment Scheme 2008

Amendment of the Agricultural Subsidies (Appeals) (Scotland) Regulations 2004

3.—(1) The Agricultural Subsidies (Appeals) (Scotland) Regulations 2004(1) are amended in accordance with sub-paragraph (2).

(2) In regulation 4 (decisions amenable to review and appeal), after regulation 4(s), insert–

“(t) a decision by the Scottish Ministers–

(i) under paragraphs 8(2) or 12B of the Crofting Counties Agricultural Grants (Scotland) Scheme 1988(2) to withhold any grant payable, or to recover any grant paid, made on or after 17th March 2008 in relation to an application being administered on that date under that Scheme; and

(ii) under paragraphs 6(4) or (5), 11A(7) or 13(1) of the Crofting Counties Agricultural Grants (Scotland) Scheme 2006 not to pay a grant, to withhold any grant payable or to recover any grant paid (in whole or in part), or require payment of any sum, made on or after 17th March 2008 in connection with any application made under that Scheme.”.

(1)

S.S.I. 2004/381 as amended by S.S.I. 2005/117, 225 and 569 and 2007/439.

(2)

S.I. 1988/559 (“the 1988 Scheme”). The 1988 Scheme was amended by the Crofting Counties Agricultural Grants (Scotland) Amendment Scheme 1992 (S.I. 1992/3291) and the Crofting Counties Agricultural Grants (Scotland) Amendment Scheme 1994 (S.I. 1994/1013). Those Schemes were revoked by paragraph 14 of the Crofting Counties Agricultural Grants (Scotland) Scheme 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/24) (“the 2006 Scheme”), but the 1988 Scheme, as amended, continues in force, by virtue of paragraph 15 of the 2006 Scheme, for the purpose of administering applications made under the 1988 Scheme before 1st April 2006.