The Agriculture and Horticulture Grant (Variation) (No. 2) Scheme 1984

Variation of principal scheme

3.  The principal scheme shall be further varied in accordance with paragraphs 4 to 8 of this scheme.

4.  In paragraph 3(1) thereof (payment of grant) there shall be substituted for subparagraph (a) the following subparagraph—

“(a) has been incurred in respect of any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in—

(i) any of paragraphs 1 to 6, 7(i), 7(ii), 8 to 11, 12(i), 12(ii) and 13 to 17 of column 1 of the Schedule;

(ii) in relation to Scotland only, paragraph 7(iii) of column 1 of the Schedule;

(iii) in relation to Northern Ireland only, paragraph 12(iii) of column 1 of the Schedule;”.

5.  In paragraph 6(1) thereof (restrictions on payment of grant) there shall be substituted for the amount “52,599 ECU” the amount “40,000 ECU” and there shall be inserted at the end the words “except to the extent that such excess expenditure or excess aggregate expenditure has been incurred in relation to any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in paragraph 2(ii), 13(ii), 13(iii) or 16(ii) of column 1 of the Schedule and does not exceed the further sum of 39,379 ECU”.

6.  In paragraph 7(1) thereof (restrictions on payment of grant) there shall be substituted for the words from “exceeds 160,000 ECU” to the end the words

“exceeds 80,000 ECU, that Minister shall not pay grant towards so much of that expenditure or, as the case may be, that aggregate as exceeds that figure except to the extent that such excess expenditure or excess aggregate expenditure has been incurred in relation to any work, facility or transaction—

(i) of a kind specified in paragraph 2(ii) or 16(ii) of column 1 of the Schedule and does not exceed the further sum of 130,000 ECU; or

   

(ii) of a kind specified in paragraph 13(ii) or 13(iii) of column 1 of the Schedule and does not exceed the further sum of 80,000 ECU.”.

7.  In paragraph 9(1) thereof (amounts of grant)—

(a) in subparagraph (a) there shall be substituted for the words “paragraphs 1 to 5, 7(iii) and 13 to 16” the words “paragraphs 2, 3, 7(iii) and 13 to 16”;

(b) in subparagraph (b) there shall be substituted for the words “paragraphs 6, 7(i), 7(ii) and 8 to 12” the words “paragraphs 1, 4 to 6, 7(i), 7(ii) and 8 to 12”;

(c) in subparagraph (bA)(ii) there shall be substituted for the words “paragraphs 6, 7(i), 7(ii) and 9 to 12” the words “paragraphs 1, 4 to 6, 7(i), 7(ii) and 9 to 12”.

8.  The Schedule to this scheme shall be substituted for the Schedule to the principal scheme (eligible works, facilities and transactions and rates of grant).