{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-horticulture-grant-scheme-1980/article-7",
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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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where at the date on which a claim for grant under paragraph 3(1) is received by the appropriate Minister—\n(a) the amount of the expenditure which is included in the claim (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as “the present claim”) and towards which grant is payable, or\n(b) the aggregate of the amount of that expenditure and any other relevant expenditure towards which grant is payable or has been paid in respect of the same agricultural business, whether under this scheme or otherwise, as the result of a claim received during the period of 6 years ending with the date of receipt of the present claim.\nexceeds 160.000 ECU, that Minister shall not pay grant towards so much of that expenditure or, as the case may be, that aggregate as exceeds that figure.\n(2) In this paragraph—\n“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;\n“other relevant expenditure” means expenditure as defined above—\n(a) towards which grant is payable or has been paid under this scheme, or\n(b) towards which grant is payable or has been paid under the Farm Capital Grant Scheme 1973, the Horticulture Capital Grant Scheme 1973 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, and which was approved for the purposes of grant as the result of an application received by the appropriate Minister on or after 1st February 1980, and which was incurred on or after that date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/1072/article/7",
    "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."
}