PART II

Regional Development Grants

Variation of rates of grant and qualifying activities
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The Secretary of State may, with the consent of the Treasury, by order vary all or any of the percentages specified in the Table in section 2(4) above.
2
The Secretary of State may, with the consent of the Treasury, by order—
a
add to, exclude or vary all or any of the descriptions of qualifying activities in section 3 above ; or
b
amend the definition of the Standard Industrial Classification in this Part of this Act by the substitution for the reference to the edition of that publication there specified of a reference to any later edition thereof, or by providing for any such reference to include a reference to any specified list of amendments to the edition in question published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
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An order under this section may contain—
a
such incidental and supplemental provisions as appear to the Secretary of State to be appropriate, including, in the case of an order under paragraph (a) of subsection (2) above, amendments of subsections (2), (3) and (4) of section 3 above;
b
such transitional provisions as respects grant under this Part of this Act as appear to the Secretary of State to be appropriate in connection with any change effected by the order in any prescribed percentage of grant or in the descriptions of activities taken into account for any of the purposes of this Part of this Act.
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Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (3) (b) above, the transitional provisions contained in an order under this section may, in the case of a building or any works begun before, but completed after, any such change, be provisions making different provision for the parts of the expenditure respectively attributable to the work carried out before the change, and to the work carried out after the change.
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An order under this section shall be contained in a statutory instrument, and—
a
the Secretary of State shall not make an order under this section which varies all or any of the percentages in the Table in section 2(4) above (whether or not it also provides for other matters) unless a draft of the order has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament; and
b
a statutory instrument containing an order under this section to which paragraph (a) above does not apply shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.