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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-horticulture-grant-variation-no-3-scheme-1983/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1983/1764",
  "legislation_title": "The Agriculture and Horticulture Grant (Variation) (No. 3) Scheme 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-horticulture-grant-variation-no-3-scheme-1983",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This scheme varies the Agriculture and Horticulture Grant Scheme 1980 (“the principal scheme”) and is also made in accordance with provisions of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1945/81 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 2180/81 both restricting investment aids for pig production and Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1946/81 restricting investment aids for milk production.\nThe main change made by the scheme is the substitution of a new Schedule of eligible works, transactions, facilities and rates of grant for the existing Schedule to the principal scheme in relation to claims for grant towards expenditure incurred on or after 1st December 1983. New rates of grant are specified for most items, and revised descriptions are introduced in respect of paragraphs 1(i) and (ii) (main framework of permanent buildings and structures not intended for horticultural production and bulk dry stores and silos), paragraph 2(i) (main framework of permanent buildings, unheated glasshouses and durable structures similar to glasshouses, intended for horticultural production), paragraph 2(ii) (heated glasshouses), paragraph 9 (pens, dips, stells or other facilities for sheltering livestock) and paragraph 16 (plant or equipment for preparation for market of horticultural produce and glasshouse heating systems). Consequential amendments are made to paragraph 9(1) of the principal scheme, and definitions of “glasshouse” and “main framework” are introduced into paragraph 2(1) (interpretation) of that scheme.\nThe restriction that expenditure on the breeding or keeping of pigs is eligible for grant only to the extent that it does not make possible an increase to more than 550 pig places (paragraph 5(2)(b) of the principal scheme as inserted by paragraph 4 of the Agriculture and Horticulture Grant (Variation) Scheme 1981) is modified in relation to expenditure incurred on or after 1st December 1983 so that only expenditure on works of a kind specified in paragraphs 1 to 5 of column 1 of the Schedule is rendered ineligible if following such expenditure the number of pig places exceeds 550 (paragraph 5(a) and (b) of this scheme).\nGrant towards expenditure on the breeding or keeping of dairy cows remains subject to the restriction that the expenditure must not result in an increase in the dairy herd to more than 40 cows (paragraph 5(3) of the principal scheme as inserted by paragraph 4 of the 1981 scheme) but is similarly modified, only expenditure on works of a kind specified in paragraphs 1 to 5 of column 1 of the Schedule incurred on or after 1st December 1983 being rendered ineligible by this restriction (paragraph 5(c) and (d) of this scheme).\nParagraph 7(1) of the principal scheme (restriction on grant) is also amended so that the maximum limit on expenditure which is eligible for grant is raised from 160,000 ECU to 210,000 ECU provided that the excess expenditure over 160,000 ECU has been incurred in relation to works of a kind specified in paragraph 2(ii) or 16(ii) of column 1 of the Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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