Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1963

6 Grants towards construction of certain buildings used by farmers' machinery syndicates

(1) The appropriate Minister may make grants towards the cost of constructing, enlarging or adapting buildings for occupation and use by farmers' machinery syndicates for the following purposes or any of them, or mainly for such purposes, that is to say—

(a) the drying, cleaning or storage of grain produced by their members; and

(b) the housing of agricultural machinery belonging to the syndicates;

and of providing such buildings with such services, means of access and other works as are reasonably required to enable them to be so used.

(2) A grant under this section shall be made in respect of such works proposed in an application therefor made in accordance with this section as may be approved by the appropriate Minister; and any such approval may be given subject to such conditions as he may determine.

(3) Subject to subsection (4) of this section, no such approval shall be given after the end of March 1966.

(4) The Ministers may from time to time by order made by statutory instrument extend the period within which such an approval may be given, but not beyond the end of March 1968.

An order under this subsection shall be of no effect unless approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

(5) An application for a grant under this section may be made by or on behalf of—

(a) the farmers' machinery syndicate by which the building to which the application relates is or is to be occupied ; or

(b) any person intending to make that building available for occupation by a farmers' machinery syndicate.

(6) In this section " farmers' machinery syndicate " means an association of persons whose members are jointly and severally liable for any debts of the association and whose object or one of whose objects is the acquisition and ownership of agricultural machinery or plant for use by its members or the provision of accommodation for the storage of grain produced by its members; and references to the use of machinery or plant or the production of grain by members of such a syndicate include references to such use or production by a body corporate which is represented by a member of the syndicate.

(7) Where any member of a farmers' machinery syndicate represents a body corporate this section does not apply in relation to the syndicate unless the body corporate is jointly and severally liable with the other members for the debts of the syndicate.

(8) This section, in its application to Scotland, shall apply in relation to partnerships as it applies in relation to bodies corporate.