The Farm and Conservation Grant Scheme 1989

Made: 31st January 1989

Laid before Parliament: 2nd February 1989

Coming into force: 20th February 1989

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Citation, commencement and extent

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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 and incurring certain expenditure

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Standard costs

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Reduction or withholding of grant

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Variation of the 1985 Scheme

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SCHEDULE 1 — ELIGIBLE WORKS, FACILITIES AND TRANSACTIONS AND RATES OF GRANT

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Provision, replacement or improvement of:

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Enclosure of areas of grazed woodland (consisting of 75 per cent. or more broadleaved trees or, in Scotland only, consisting of 75 per cent. or more Scots pine) with fencing protecting the areas from livestock.

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Burning heather or grass or making muirburn or regenerating heather by cutting; bracken control by means other than soil cultivation.

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Enclosure of areas of heather moorland or heathland with fencing protecting the areas from livestock.

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Repair or reinstatement of vernacular buildings in agricultural use and made of materials traditional in the locality where the repair or reinstatement is carried out using similar materials.

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• (a) Replacement of apple orchards (other than apple orchards consisting of trees producing cider apples) which have been grubbed up after 1st July 1988 by an equal or smaller area of apple orchards consisting of commercial varieties of apple trees and associated trees required for their pollination.

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Provision, installation or replacement of heating systems (including boilers) in glasshouses and in durable plastic-clad structures designed and intended for the production of horticultural produce.

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Replacement of heated glasshouses (being heated internally by means of permanent installations for the consumption of fuel) by other glasshouses so heated or by heated durable plastic-clad structures designed and intended for the production of horticultural produce; alteration or improvement (including the supply and installation of permanent thermal insulation) of such heated glasshouses.

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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.

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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.

SCHEDULE 2 — ELIGIBLE WORKS, FACILITIES AND TRANSACTIONS AND RATES OF GRANT IN THE ISLES OF SCILLY

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Provision, replacement, improvement or alteration of temperature-controlled stores for the treatment and holding of bulbs and flowers, including plant for the cooling and heating of such stores.

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Application of lime (other than normal husbandry applications) raising the soil pH to 5.5.

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Equipment for the production or preparation for market of horticultural produce, comprising bulb sterilising tanks; specialist soil sterilant incorporation machines; bulb lifters; bulb graders; bulb cleaners; bulb chipping machines; flower sleeving machines; polythene laying equipment; bulb planters and flame cultivators.

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Provision, replacement, improvement or alteration of:

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Provision, replacement or improvement of shelter hedges (including hedgerow trees and associated protective fencing).

Signed

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 27th January 1989.

Trumpington — Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sanderson of Bowden — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 30th January 1989

Peter Walker — Secretary of State for Wales — 27th January 1989

We approve,

David Maclean — David Lightbown — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 31st January 1989

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1970 c. 40.

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68.

[^f00003]: OJ No. L93, 30.3.85, p.1, amended by Council Regulations (EEC) No. 1760/87 (OJ No. L167, 26.6.87, p.1), 1137/88 (OJ No. L108, 29.4.88, p.1).

[^f00004]: OJ No. L128, 19.5.75, p.1, amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 797/85.

[^f00005]: Article 2 was amended by Council Directive No. 80/666/EEC (OJ No. L180, 14.7.80, p.34).

[^f00006]: S.I. 1980/1298, amended by S.I. 1981/1708, 1983/508, 924, 1763, 1984/618, 1922, 1985/1205.

[^f00007]: S.I. 1981/1707, amended by S.I. 1983/507, 925, 1762, 1984/620, 1924, 1985/1266, 1986/1295.

[^f00008]: S.I. 1985/1266, amended by S.I. 1987/1950, 1988/1201, 1982, 2065 By S.R. (N.I.) 1987 No. 156, the Agriculture Improvement Regulations were revoked in so far as they formed part of the law of Northern Ireland.

[^f00009]: S.I. 1985/1029, varied by S.I. 1988/1056, 1983, 2066. By S.I. 1987/166 (N.I. 1), the Agriculture Improvement Scheme was revoked in so far as it formed part of the law of Northern Ireland.

[^f00010]: OJ No. L90, 1.4.84, p.13, amended by Council Regulations (EEC) No. 1557/84 (OJ No. L150, 6.6.84, p.6), 590/85 (OJ No. L68, 8.3.85, p.1), 1305/85 (OJ No. L137, 27.5.85, p.12), 2893/85 (OJ No. L278, 18.10.85, p.9), 1343/86 (OJ No. L119, 8.5.86, p.34), 1911/86 (OJ No. L165, 21.6.86, p.6), 2316/86 (OJ No. L202, 25.7.86, p.3), 774/87 (OJ No. L78, 20.3.87, p.3), 1899/87 (OJ No. L182, 3.7.87, p.39), 1110/88 (OJ No. L110, 29.4.88, p.28).

[^f00011]: OJ No. L148, 28.6.68, p.13; Article 5c was inserted by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 856/84 (OJ No. L90, 1.4.84, p.10) and subsequently amended by Council Regulations (EEC) No. 1298/85 (OJ No. L137, 27.5.85, p.5), 2893/85, 1335/86 (OJ No. L119, 8.5.86, p.19), 773/87 (OJ No. L78, 20.3.87, p.1), 2988/87 (OJ No. L285, 8.10.87, p.1), 744/88 (OJ No. L78, 23.3.88, p.1), 1109/88 (OJ No. L110, 29.4.88, p.27).

Editorial notes

[^key-2a988450b343bb7e2e8d65db0f5f7462]: 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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