The Farm Waste Grant (Nitrate Vulnerable Zones) (Wales) Scheme 2004

Financial Limits

4.—(1) If, in view of the total number of applications for grant already approved or received, the National Assembly for Wales is at any time of the opinion that the financial resources which are available for payment of grant under this Scheme during any period are insufficient to satisfy any payment during the period which would result from the approval of any further application, it may, in respect of any application received at the date of its decision but not yet accepted, or any application it may receive during the relevant period —

(a) suspend further consideration of any such application until such time as may subsequently be specified by it; or

(b) reject any such application without further consideration.

(2) Notice of —

(a) a decision —

(i) to suspend consideration of any application under sub-paragraph (1)(a), or

(ii) to reject any application without further consideration under sub-paragraph (1)(b); or

(b) of the termination of the relevant period, shall be published in The London Gazette.

(3) In sub-paragraphs (1) and (2), “the relevant period” means the period beginning with the day after the date of the decision of the National Assembly for Wales referred to in sub-paragraph (1), or any subsequent date specified by it in a notice under sub-paragraph (2)(a), and ending with such date as may be specified by it in a notice under sub-paragraph (2)(b).