The Food Industry Development (Amendment) (England) Scheme 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 3339

AGRICULTURE, ENGLAND

The Food Industry Development (Amendment) (England) Scheme 2001

Made

5th October 2001

Laid before Parliament

8th October 2001

Coming into force

29th October 2001

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the power conferred by section 50 (1), (2) and (3) of the Agriculture Act 1993(1), and now vested in her(2), and with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Scheme—

Title, commencement and extent

1.—(1) This Scheme may be cited as the Food Industry Development (Amendment) (England) Scheme 2001 and shall come into force on 29th October 2001.

(2) This Scheme applies to England.

Amendment of the Food Industry Development Scheme 1997

2.  The Food Industry Development Scheme 1997(3) (hereinafter referred to as “the Scheme”) shall have effect subject to the amendments contained in paragraphs 3 and 4.

3.  In paragraph 5 (eligibility for consideration for the payment of a grant under the Scheme), at the end of sub-paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the words “and that the applicant falls within any class or classes to which the Minister has restricted applications under paragraph 6(2A)”.

4.  In paragraph 6 (applications for grants under the Scheme), after sub-paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(2A) An invitation by the appropriate Minister for applications for the payment of a grant under this Scheme may be restricted to such class or classes of person as that Minister shall determine.”.

Whitty

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

4th October 2001

We approve,

Annie McGuire

Nick Ainger

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

5th October 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Scheme)

This Scheme, which applies to England, comes into force on 29th October 2001 (paragraph 1).

The Scheme amends the Food Industry Development Scheme 1997, insofar as the latter applies to England, by specifying that eligibility for consideration for the payment of a grant under that Scheme may be restricted, in any invitation for applications for such a payment, to such class or classes of person as the appropriate Minister (who, in England, is the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) shall determine (paragraphs 3 and 4).

(1)

1993 c. 37.

(2)

By virtue, in relation to England, of S.I. 1999/3141: “the Ministers” is defined in section 50(9) of the Agriculture Act 1993 as the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales acting jointly; that power was severed and transferred, in relation to Scotland, to the Scottish Ministers by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) and, in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2(a) of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).

(3)

S.I. 1997/2673, as read with S.I. 1997/2674.