{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-horticulture-grant-variation-no-2-scheme-1984/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1984/1923",
  "legislation_title": "The Agriculture and Horticulture Grant (Variation) (No. 2) Scheme 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-horticulture-grant-variation-no-2-scheme-1984",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This scheme varies the Agriculture and Horticulture Grant Scheme 1980, as varied, (“the principal scheme”) and applies in relation to claims for grant towards expenditure incurred on or after 12th December 1984 (paragraph 2 of the scheme).\nThe scheme substitutes a new Schedule of eligible works, facilities and transactions and rates of grant for the existing Schedule to the principal scheme (paragraph 8 of the scheme). New rates of grant are specified for most items, and revised descriptions are introduced in respect of paragraph 1(ii) (main framework of bulk dry stores or silos), paragraphs 10(i) and 10(ii) (hedges, walls, dykes and gates) and paragraphs 12(i), 12(ii) and 12(iii) (grassland). In Great Britain grant is no longer available in relation to the clearance and reclamation of land, but in Northern Ireland grant is available for reclamation of land and removal of other obstructions to cultivation. The higher rates of grant in relation to the items specified in paragraphs 1(i) (main framework of permanent buildings and structures not intended for horticultural production), 1(ii), 4 (waste disposal systems) and 5 (facilities for supply of electricity or gas) are available only to agricultural businesses with an income per labour unit less than the comparable income (paragraph 7 of the scheme).\nThe maximum limit on expenditure in respect of an agricultural business which is eligible for grant over a 2 year period is reduced to 40,000 ECU per labour unit required in carrying on the business, except in relation to works of a kind specified in paragraphs 2(ii) (heated glasshouses), 13(ii), 13(iii) (restructuring of orchards) or 16(ii) (glasshouse heating systems) of the Schedule where the maximum limit is 79,379 ECU per labour unit (paragraph 5 of the scheme).\nThe maximum limit on expenditure in respect of an agricultural business which is eligible for grant over a 6 year period is reduced to 80,000 ECU, except in relation to works of a kind specified in paragraph 2(ii) or 16(ii) of the Schedule where the limit remains at 210,000 ECU and in respect of works of a kind specified in paragraph 13(ii) or 13(iii) of the Schedule where the limit remains at 160,000 ECU (paragraph 6 of the scheme).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/1923/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:27:46.645418+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."
}