LegalizeThe Agriculture Improvement Scheme 1985
Made: 5th July 1985
Laid before Parliament: 8th July 1985
Comming into operation
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Citation, extent and commencement
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Interpretation
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Payment of grants
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Restrictions on payment of grant
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Amounts of grant
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Claims for grant
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Closing dates for claims
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Standard costs
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Reduction or withholding of grant
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Variation of the 1980 Scheme
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SCHEDULE 1 — ELIGIBLE WORKS, FACILITIES AND TRANSACTIONS AND RATES OF GRANT
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
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| Kind of work or facility or transaction | Business outside less-favoured area.Rate of grant. Per cent. | Business inside less-favoured area.Rate of grant. Per cent. |
| 1. Provision, replacement or improvement of: | ||
| (a) hedges (including hedgerow trees), walls and dykes (where the walls and dykes are built of materials traditional in the locality) and associated gates, stiles and footbridges; | 30 | 60 |
| (b) facilities for the handling, storage and treatment of agricultural effluents and waste (except facilities specified in sub-paragraph (c) of this paragraph); | 30 | 60 |
| (c) manure stores excluding those integral with the poultry-house; | 15 | 30 |
| (d) shelter belts (including trees for shading stock)— | ||
| (i) consisting of 50 per cent. or more broadleaved trees; | 30 | 60 |
| (ii) other shelter belts. | 15 | 60 |
| 2. Supply and installation of: | ||
| (a) wind or water powered pumps and generators, solar and other forms of permanent and durable energy-saving agricultural investment (excluding any investment specified in sub-paragraph (b) below); | 15 | 30 |
| (b) permanent thermal insulation, vapour sealing or gas sealing for the control of temperature or atmosphere in buildings designed and intended for agricultural use (excluding glasshouses of a kind specified in paragraph 5 below). | 15 | 30 |
| 3. Burning heather or grass or making muirburn or regenerating heather by cutting; bracken control by means other than soil cultivation. | 15 | 30 |
| 4. Replacement, alteration or improvement of unheated glasshouses. | 15 | 15 |
| 5. Replacement, alteration or other improvement (including the supply and installation of permanent thermal insulation) of heated glasshouses being heated internally by means of permanent installations for the consumption of fuel. | 35 | 35 |
| 6. Provision, installation or replacement of glasshouse heating systems including boilers. | 15 | 15 |
| 7. (a) Replacement of apple orchards (other than apple orchards consisting of trees producing cider apples) which have been grubbed up after 7th November 1982 by an equal or smaller area of apple orchards consisting of—(i) the varieties of apple trees known as Cox's Orange Pippin apple, Bramley's Seedling apple or Spartan apple;(ii) any other named varieties of apple trees required for pollination (other than varieties producing cider apples) not exceeding in total one half of the number of trees of the varieties specified in sub-paragraph (i);(iii) any species of crab apple tree and any hybrid varieties of crab apple tree required for pollination. | 25 | 25 |
| (b) Replacement of pear orchards (other than pear orchards consisting of trees producing perry pears) which have been grubbed up after 7th November 1982 by an equal or smaller area of pear orchards consisting of—(i) the varieties of pear trees known as Conference pear or Doyenne du Comice pear;(ii) any other named varieties of pear trees required for pollination (other than varieties producing perry pears) not exceeding in total one half of the number of trees of the varieties specified in sub-paragraph (i). | 25 | 25 |
| 8. Orchard grubbing. | 15 | 15 |
| 9. In Scotland only, making, improvement or alteration of the banks or channels of water-courses or other agricultural flood protection works to provide or improve the drainage of agricultural land or to prevent or mitigate the flooding or erosion of agricultural land. | 40 | 50 |
| 10. Any work, facility or transaction (including conservation or amenity works) incidental to the carrying out of any work, facility or transaction specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 9 above 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 this scheme. | The rate appropriate to that work, facility or transaction in accordance with the provisions of this scheme. |
SCHEDULE 2 — VARIATION OF THE 1980 SCHEME
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Signed
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 3rd July 1985.
Michael Jopling — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
George Younger — Secretary of State for Scotland — 1st July 1985
Nicholas Edwards — Secretary of State for Wales — 5th July 1985
We approve,
T. Garel-Jones — Donald Thompson — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury — 1st July 1985
Explanatory note
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Footnotes
[^f00001]: Article 2 was amended by Council Directive No. 80/666/EEC.
[^f00002]: Amended by S.I. 1981/1708, 1983/508, 924, 1763, 1984/618, 1922, 1985/1025.
[^f00003]: Amended by S.I. 1983/507, 925, 1762, 1984/620, 1924.
[^f00004]: Varied by S.I. 1981/1533, 1983/273, 923, 1764, 1984/619, 1923.
[^f00005]: Amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 590/85 and Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1305/85.
[^f00006]: Article 5c was inserted by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 856/84 and subsequently amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1557/84 and Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1298/85.
[^f00007]: S.I. 1981 No. 399
Editorial notes
[^key-623b846bc8353c66725b9da5a8bdc11b]: Scheme revoked (1.1.2024) by Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (c. 28), ss. 1(1), 22(3), Sch. 1 Pt. 1 (with s. 1(3)(4)); S.I. 2023/1363, reg. 2 [Editorial note: No historical revised versions have been created for amendments to this S.I. made prior to its final revocation. A revised version of how the S.I. stood at its first commencement is available and, to see the document content as it originally stood when it was made, select the 'Original (As Made)' version from the left-hand menu. For further details of the amendments see the List of All Changes available in 'More Resources' above]
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