2003 No. 2726 (W.261)
AGRICULTURE, WALES

The Pig Industry Restructuring Grant (Wales) (Variation) Scheme 2003

Made
Coming into force
The National Assembly for Wales in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 1 of the Farm Land and Rural Development Act 19881 and sections 28 and 29 of the Agriculture Act 19702 makes the following scheme:

Title, application and commencement1.

This Scheme is called the Pig Industry Restructuring Grant (Wales) (Variation) Scheme 2003; it applies to Wales and comes into force on 31st October 2003.

Amendment to the Pig Industry Restructuring Grant (Wales) Scheme 20012.

(1)

The Pig Industry Restructuring Grant (Wales) Scheme 20013 is amended as follows.

(2)

There is substituted for the definition of “bank” in paragraph 2 the following definition —

““bank” (“banc”) means —

  1. (i)
    a person who has permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 20004 to accept deposits,
  2. (ii)

    an European Economic Area firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(b) of Schedule 3 to that Act which has permission under paragraph 15 of that Schedule (as a result of qualifying for authorisation under paragraph 12 of that Schedule) to accept deposits,

  3. (iii)

    the National Savings bank,

  4. (iv)
    a municipal bank, that is to say a company which was, immediately before the repeal of the Banking Act 19875 exempted from the prohibition in section 3 of that Act by virtue of section 4(1) of, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to, that Act, or
  5. (v)
    a credit union within the meaning of the Credit Unions Act 19796.”

(3)

There is inserted the following paragraph after subparagraph (1) of paragraph 2.

“(1A)

The definition of “bank” (“banc”) in subparagraph (1) must be read with —

(a)

section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

(b)

any relevant order made under that section; and

(c)

Schedule 2 to that Act.”.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 19987
D. Elis-Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly
(This note is not part of the Scheme)

This Scheme amends the Pig Industry Restructuring Grant (Wales) Scheme 2001.

The amendments made concern the definition of bank and are consequential to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.