Schedule ELIGIBLE WORKS, FACILITIES AND TRANSACTIONS AND RATES OF GRANT

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Kind of work or facility or transaction	Agricultural business. Rate of grant. Per cent.	Agricultural business in Less. Favoured Area. Rate of grant. Per cent.	Horticultural production business. Rate of grant. Per cent.
1. Provision, replacement, improvement, alteration, enlargement or reconditioning of permanent buildings (except living accommodation and buildings designed and intended for the production of horticultural produce (see paragraph 2 of this Schedule)), bulk dry stores, silos, yards, loading platforms, ramps or banks.	22.5	22.5	22.5
2. Replacement, reconstruction, alteration, reconditioning or other improvement of existing permanent buildings, of permanently sited frames or of durable structures for cladding with plastic, designed and intended for the production of horticultural produce.	Nil	Nil	22.5
3. Supply and installation of permanent thermal insulation, vapour sealing or gas sealing for the control of temperature or atmosphere in buildings designed and intended for horticultural use.	Nil	Nil	22.5
4. Provision, replacement or improvement of systems for the disposal of agricultural waste.	22.5	22.5	22.5
5. Provision, replacement or improvement of facilities for the supply of electricity or gas for agricultural purposes.	22.5	22.5	22.5
6. Provision, replacement or improvement of facilities for the supply or storage of water for agricultural purposes.	22.5	50^f1	22.5
7. (i) Provision, replacement or improvement of field drainage, including under-drainage and ditching.	37.5	70^f2	37.5
(ii) Works and facilities to prevent the flooding of agricultural land by watercourses.	22.5	50^f3	22.5
(iii) In Scotland only, making, improvement or alteration of the banks or channels of watercourses 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.	50	70	Nil
8. Provision, replacement or improvement of roads, paths and other permanent ways, grids, hard standings, fords, bridges, culverts, railway crossings, creeps, piers, jetties or slips.	22.5	50^f4	22.5
9. Provision, replacement or improvement of pens, dips, stells or other facilities designed and intended for use in connection with the gathering, treatment or feeding of livestock or for sheltering them in periods of adverse weather but not for in-wintering.	22.5	50^f5	Nil
10. Provision, replacement or improvement of permanent fences, hedges, walls or gates.	22.5	50^f6	22.5
11. Provision, replacement or improvement of shelter belts.	Nil	50^f7	22.5
12. (i) Reseeding and regeneration of grassland and laying down of permanent pasture, including as part of a complete programme of work the application of lime or fertiliser.	22.5	Nil	Nil
(ii) Reseeding and regeneration of grassland; laying down of permanent pasture; application of lime or fertiliser (other than normal husbandry applications) for the benefit of grassland.	Nil	50^f8	Nil
(iii) Clearance and reclamation of land; sub-soiling; burning heather or grass or making muirburn or regenerating heather by cutting; land levelling or grading (including filling in of ditches or ponds); removal of tree roots, boulders or other obstructions to cultivation; bracken control.	22.5	50^f9	22.5
13. Orchard grubbing.	22.5	22.5	22.5
14. Provision, replacement or improvement of stakes and wirework for—
(i) hop gardens;	22.5	22.5	Nil
(ii) cane fruit.	Nil	Nil	15
15. Provision, replacement, improvement, alteration, enlargement or reconditioning of watercress beds.	Nil	Nil	22.5
16. Plant or equipment designed and intended for the production, harvesting, storage or preparation for market of horticultural produce (excluding plant or equipment designed and intended for the cultivation of horticultural crops and produce and potato harvesting equipment).	Nil	Nil	15
17. Any work, facility or transaction incidental to the carrying out or provision of any work, facility or transaction specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 16 of this Schedule or necessary or proper in carrying 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 these regulations.

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Footnotes

f1: In accordance with paragraph 9(1)(b) these rates of grant are available only to agricultural businesses with an income per labour unit less than the comparable income.
f2: In accordance with paragraph 9(1)(b) these rates of grant are available only to agricultural businesses with an income per labour unit less than the comparable income.
f3: In accordance with paragraph 9(1)(b) these rates of grant are available only to agricultural businesses with an income per labour unit less than the comparable income.
f4: In accordance with paragraph 9(1)(b) these rates of grant are available only to agricultural businesses with an income per labour unit less than the comparable income.
f5: In accordance with paragraph 9(1)(b) these rates of grant are available only to agricultural businesses with an income per labour unit less than the comparable income.
f6: In accordance with paragraph 9(1)(b) these rates of grant are available only to agricultural businesses with an income per labour unit less than the comparable income.
f7: In accordance with paragraph 9(1)(b) these rates of grant are available only to agricultural businesses with an income per labour unit less than the comparable income.
f8: In accordance with paragraph 9(1)(b) these rates of grant are available only to agricultural businesses with an income per labour unit less than the comparable income.
f9: In accordance with paragraph 9(1)(b) these rates of grant are available only to agricultural businesses with an income per labour unit less than the comparable income.