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Article 5

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(1)

The appropriate Minister shall not pay grant under paragraph 3(1) in relation to any expenditure in connection with the breeding or keeping of poultry or the production of eggs.

(2)

The appropriate Minister shall not pay grant under paragraph 3(1) in relation to any expenditure in connection with the breeding or keeping of pigs—

(a)

unless it appears to that Minister that the aggregate of the amount of that expenditure and any other expenditure of that kind which has been incurred in respect of the same agricultural business amounts to not less than 13,158 ECU, and not more than 66,699 ECU, that other expenditure being expenditure in respect of which a claim for grant, under this scheme, the Farm Capital Grant Scheme 1973f1, or any regulations made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 providing for the payment of grant to a person carrying on an agricultural business as therein defined in accordance with an approved development plan, has been received by that Minister during the period of 2 years ending with the day on which a claim for grant in relation to the first mentioned expenditure has been received, and

(b)

unless it appears to that Minister that after completion of the works, facilities or transactions in respect of which the aforesaid aggregate expenditure has been incurred, the land on which there will be carried on the agricultural business for the purposes of which or in connection with which the expenditure has been incurred will be capable of producing not less than 35 per cent of the feeding stuffs required for the pigs kept on the land on which that business will be carried on.

(3)

In this paragraph “expenditure” means expenditure other than expenditure incurred in respect of any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in paragraph 7(iii) of column 1 of the Schedule.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

varied by S.I. 1976/547, S.I. 1976/1870, S.I. 1978/380, S.I. 1978/768, S.I. 1980/103.