{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-horticulture-grant-variation-scheme-1981/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1981/1533",
  "legislation_title": "The Agriculture and Horticulture Grant (Variation) Scheme 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-horticulture-grant-variation-scheme-1981",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Scheme, which is made under sections 28 and 29 of the Agriculture Act 1970 and applies throughout the United Kingdom, varies the Agriculture and Horticulture Grant Scheme 1980 in accordance with 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 former restriction on the amount of expenditure on the breeding or keeping of pigs which might have been eligible for grant, account having been taken of similar grant aided expenditure during the preceding 2 years, is replaced by the restriction that expenditure on the breeding or keeping of pigs will be 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 1980 Scheme as inserted by paragraph 4 of this Scheme). Grant towards expenditure on the breeding or keeping of dairy cows or heifers is made 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 1980 Scheme as inserted by paragraph 4 of this Scheme).\nAnother change is that expenditure on permanent framework for plastic cladded structures will be eligible for grant (paragraph 5).\nThe definition of “ECU” has been amended (paragraph 3(b)) to relate it more clearly to the representative rate used for the purposes of the common agricultural structures policy of the European Economic Community which is fixed from time to time by Council Regulation. The sterling equivalent of 1 ECU on 1st January 1981 converted at the agricultural exchange rate was £0.618655.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1533/note",
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  },
  "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."
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