LegalizeThe Agriculture and Horticulture Development Regulations 1980
Made: 28th August 1980
Coming into Operation: 1st October 1980
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Citation, commencement and extent
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Interpretation
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Eligible persons
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Eligible agricultural business
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Development plans
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Variation and withdrawal of development plans
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Farm development and related grants
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Amounts of grant under regulation 7(1)
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Accounts and amounts of grant payable in connection therewith
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Amounts of guidance premium
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Claims for grant
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Standard costs
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Comparable income
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Reduction or withholding of grant
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Revocation of approval and recovery of grant
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False statements
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Rights of entry
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Closing date for applications
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SCHEDULE — ELIGIBLE WORKS, FACILITIES AND TRANSACTIONS AND RATES OF GRANT
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 |
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| Kind of work or facility or transaction | Agricultural business. Rate of grant. Per cent. | Agricultural business in Less-Favoured Area. Rate of grant. Per cent. | Horticultural production business. Rate of grant. Per cent. |
| 1. Provision, replacement, improvement, alteration, enlargement or reconditioning of permanent buildings (except living accommodation and buildings designed and intended for the production of horticultural produce (see paragraph 2 of this Schedule)), bulk dry stores, silos, yards, loading platforms, ramps or banks. | 32.5 | 37.5 | 32.5 |
| 2. (i) Replacement, reconstruction, alteration, reconditioning or other improvement of existing permanent buildings, of permanently sited frames or of durable structures for cladding with plastic, designed and intended for the production of horticultural produce (excluding any work or facility specified in paragraph 2(ii) of this Schedule). | Nil | Nil | 32.5 |
| (ii) Provision or enlargement of permanent buildings, of permanently sited frames or of durable structures for cladding with plastic, designed and intended for the production of horticultural produce. | Nil | Nil | 5 |
| 3. Supply and installation of permanent thermal insulation, vapour sealing or gas sealing for the control of temperature or atmosphere in buildings designed and intended for horticultural use. | Nil | Nil | 32.5 |
| 4. Provision, replacement or improvement of systems for the disposal of agricultural waste. | 32.5 | 37.5 | 32.5 |
| 5. Provision, replacement or improvement of facilities for the supply of electricity or gas for agricultural purposes. | 32.5 | 37.5 | 32.5 |
| 6. Provision, replacement or improvement of facilities for the supply or storage of water for agricultural purposes. | 32.5 | 50 | 32.5 |
| 7. (i) Provision, replacement or improvement of field drainage, including under-drainage and ditching. | 50 | 70 | 50 |
| (ii) Works and facilities to prevent the flooding of agricultural land by watercourses. | 32.5 | 50 | 32.5 |
| 8. Provision, replacement or improvement of roads, paths and other permanent ways, grids, hard standings, fords, bridges, culverts, railway crossings, creeps, piers, jetties or slips. | 32.5 | 50 | 32.5 |
| 9. Provision, replacement or improvement of pens, dips, stells or other facilities designed and intended for use in connection with the gathering, treatment or feeding of livestock or for sheltering them in periods of adverse weather but not for in-wintering. | 32.5 | 50 | Nil |
| 10. Provision, replacement or improvement of permanent fences, hedges, walls or gates. | 32.5 | 50 | 32.5 |
| 11. Provision, replacement or improvement of shelter belts. | 5 | 50 | 32.5 |
| 12. (i) Reseeding and regeneration of grassland and laying down of permanent pasture, including as part of a complete programme of work the application of lime or fertiliser. | 32.5 | Nil | Nil |
| (ii) Reseeding and regeneration of grassland; laying down of permanent pasture; application of lime or fertiliser (other than normal husbandry applications) for the benefit of grassland. | Nil | 50 | Nil |
| (iii) Clearance and reclamation of land; sub-soiling; burning heather or grass or making muirburn or regenerating heather by cutting; land levelling or grading (including filling in of ditches or ponds); removal of tree roots, boulders or other obstructions to cultivation; bracken control. | 32.5 | 50 | 32.5 |
| (iv) Claying or marling or soil mixing. | 5 | 10 | 5 |
| 13. Orchard grubbing. | 32.5 | 32.5 | 32.5 |
| 14. Provision, replacement or improvement of stakes and wirework for— | |||
| (i) hop gardens; | 32.5 | 32.5 | Nil |
| (ii) cane fruit; | 20 | 20 | 20 |
| (iii) vineyards. | 32.5 | 32.5 | 32.5 |
| 15. Provision, replacement, improvement, alteration, enlargement or reconditioning of watercress beds. | Nil | Nil | 32.5 |
| 16. Plant or equipment designed and intended for the production, harvesting, storage or preparation for market of horticultural produce (excluding plant or equipment of a kind specified in paragraph 18 of this Schedule and potato harvesting equipment). | Nil | Nil | 20 |
| 17. Provision or installation or replacement of plant or machinery (including fixtures and fittings) for agricultural purposes (excluding plant or machinery which has been used before installation or which is installed in or is wholly for the benefit of living accommodation or which is of a kind specified in paragraphs 16 or 18 of this Schedule). | 5 | 10 | 5 |
| 18. Plant or equipment, including tractors and ancillary equipment, designed and intended for the cultivation of horticultural crops and produce. | Nil | Nil | 5 |
| 19. Provision, replacement, improvement, alteration or enlargement of facilities for the farming of fresh water fish for food production. | 5 | 10 | Nil |
| 20. Purchase of livestock. | 5 | 10 | Nil |
| 21. Any work, facility or transaction incidental to the carrying out or provision of any work, facility or transaction specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 20 of this Schedule or necessary or proper in carrying it out or providing it or securing the full benefit thereof. | The rate appropriate to that work, facility or transaction in accordance with the provisions of these regulations. | The rate appropriate to that work, facility or transaction in accordance with the provisions of these regulations. | The rate appropriate to that work, facility or transaction in accordance with the provisions of these regulations. |
| 22. Preparation of development plans. | 32.5 | 32.5 | 32.5 |
Signed
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 8th August 1980.
Peter Walker — Minister of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
George Younger — Secretary of State for Scotland — 28th August 1980
Explanatory note
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Footnotes
[^f00001]: S.I. 1972/1811.
[^f00002]: O.J. No. L379.
[^f00003]: O.J. No. L128.
[^f00004]: , amended by S.I. 1979/1559; 1980/97, 419.
Editorial notes
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