The Farm and Conservation Grant (Variation) (No. 2) Scheme 1994

Made: 25th November 1994

Laid before Parliament: 29th November 1994

Coming into force: 30th November 1994

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 28 and 29 of the Agriculture Act 1970[^f00001], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, with the approval of the Treasury, hereby make the following Scheme:

Title, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) This Scheme may be cited as the Farm and Conservation Grant (Variation) (No. 2) Scheme 1994 and shall come into force on 30th November 1994.

• (2) In this Scheme “the principal Scheme” means the Farm and Conservation Grant Scheme 1989[^f00002].

Savings

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Paragraph 4 of this Scheme shall not apply in relation to any claim for grant towards expenditure incurred for the purposes of the principal Scheme before 30th November 1994 and that paragraph shall not affect the operation of the principal Scheme in relation to any such claim for grant.

Variation of the principal Scheme

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The principal Scheme shall be further varied in accordance with paragraph 4 below.

4

In Schedule 1 (“ELIGIBLE WORKS, FACILITIES AND TRANSACTIONS AND RATES OF GRANT”) paragraph 1(b) shall be deleted.

Signed

Howe — Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food — 25th November 1994

Hector Monro — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 22nd November 1994

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Gwilym Jones — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office — 23rd November 1994

We approve,

Andrew Mackay — Andrew Mitchell — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 22nd November 1994

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Scheme)

This Scheme further varies the Farm and Conservation Grant Scheme 1989 (“the principal Scheme”) and complies with Article 12 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2328/91 (OJ No. L218, 6.8.91, p.1) on improving the efficiency of agricultural structures.

In relation to expenditure incurred on or after 30th November 1994, the Scheme removes the provision for payment of grant in respect of facilities for handling, storage and treatment of agricultural effluents and waste, and related fixed disposal facilities (paragraph 4).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1970 c. 40.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1989/128, amended by S.I. 1990/1126, S.I. 1991/1338, S.I. 1993/2901 and S.I. 1994/1302.