{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-horticulture-grant-scheme-1980/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1980/1072",
  "legislation_title": "The Agriculture and Horticulture Grant Scheme 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-horticulture-grant-scheme-1980",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this scheme the appropriate Minister may make to any person a grant towards expenditure incurred by him for the purposes of, or in connection with, the carrying on or establishment of an agricultural business, being expenditure which—\n(a) has been incurred in respect of any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 6, 7(i), 7(ii) and 8 to 17 of column 1 of the Schedule or, in relation to Scotland only, paragraph 7(iii) thereof;\n(b) appears to that Minister to be of a capital nature, or incurred in connection with expenditure of a capital nature; and\n(c) is approved by that Minister for the purposes of a grant under this scheme.\n(2) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs 4 to 9, the appropriate Minister may make the payment of grant under sub-paragraph (1) subject to such conditions as that Minister thinks fit and any payment of such grant may be made at such time as that Minister may determine.\n(3) Where it appears to the appropriate Minister that expenditure in respect of which a grant is claimed under sub-paragraph (1) has been incurred partly for the purposes of, or in connection with, the carrying on or establishment of an agricultural business and partly for non-agricultural purposes, that Minister may for the purposes of a grant under the said sub-paragraph treat as having been incurred for the purposes of, or in connection with, the carrying on or establishment of an agricultural business so much of that expenditure as appears to that Minister to be referable to the carrying on or establishment of that agricultural business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/1072/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:57:13.472523+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}