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The Agriculture Improvement Scheme 1985

Westlaw

King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2011-05-20

AGRICULTURE

HORTICULTURE

This scheme, which complies with Article 8(2) and (4) of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 797/85 on improving the efficiency of agricultural structures and Council Directive No. 75/268/EEC on mountain and hill farming and farming in certain less-favoured areas, applies throughout the United Kingdom and operates (except for paragraphs 1 and 10 and Schedule 2) from 1st October 1985. The scheme makes provision for aid for agricultural businesses in the form of grants in respect of expenditure of a capital nature incurred in relation to the works, facilities or transactions specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 (paragraph 3). The rates of grant applicable are set out (paragraph 5 and columns 2 and 3 of Schedule 1). Higher rates of grant may be payable for businesses in less-favoured areas (paragraph 5(2) and column 3 of Schedule 1). Less-favoured areas are defined by reference to designated maps which are available for inspection during normal office hours at the addresses specified in the definition of designated maps (paragraph 2(1)). Copies of the maps may be inspected during normal office hours at any Regional or Divisional Office of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, at any Divisional Office of the Welsh Office Agriculture Department, at any Area Office of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland or at any County Agricultural Executive Office or selected Area Offices of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland.