Article 4

For paragraph 5 thereof (restrictions on payment of grant) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“5

(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)

in respect of which a claim for such grant is received by that Minister before 30th November 1981 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 1973^f1 or any regulations made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972^f2 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 two years ending with the day on which a claim for grant in relation to the first mentioned expenditure has been received, or

(b)

in respect of which a claim for such grant is received by that Minister on or after 30th November 1981 unless it appears to that Minister that that expenditure does not make possible an increase to more than 550 in the number of pig places on the land on which there will be carried on the agricultural business in relation to which the expenditure has been incurred, save that that Minister may pay grant towards so much, if any, of that expenditure as was incurred before 30th November 1981 and is within the limits set by sub-paragraph (2)(a) above, and in any case

(c)

unless it appears to that Minister that after completion of the works, facilities or transactions in respect of which that expenditure has been incurred the land on which there will be carried on the agricultural business in relation to 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 that land.

(3)

The appropriate Minister may pay grant under paragraph 3(1) towards expenditure incurred on or after 30th November 1981 in connection with the breeding or keeping of dairy cows or heifers only if it appears to him that after completion of the works, facilities or transactions in respect of which that expenditure has been incurred not more than 40 dairy cows will be kept on the land on which there will be carried on the agricultural business in relation to which the expenditure has been incurred.

(4)

In this paragraph—

(a)

`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;

(b)

`pig place' means the facilities necessary to house one fattening pig; save that where the herd includes breeding sows, the facilities necessary to house one such sow shall be taken to be the equivalent of 6.5 pig places. ”.