The Highlands and Islands Rural Enterprise Programme Regulations 1991

Financial assistance

7.—(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations the Secretary of State may give to an eligible person financial assistance towards—

(a) eligible expenditure on—

(i) approved diversification measures mentioned in column 1 for the provision of any work or facility of the kind set out in column 2 of Schedule 1 except where the work or facility described in paragraph 3(6)(b) and (c) and paragraph 4(6)(a)-(d) of the said Schedule is to be carried out on set-aside land;

(ii) approved ancillary agricultural measures of the kind set out in Part I of Schedule 2:

(iii) approved environmental measures of the kind set out in column 1 of Part I of Schedule 3;

(b) the environmental management of—

(i) the categories of land referred to in column 1 of Part II of Schedule 3;

(ii) land of high environmental value of a size mentioned in column 1 of Part III of Schedule 3;

(2) Subject to regulation 8(2), the Secretary of State may determine the manner and timing of payment of financial assistance.