# Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024, Paragraph 9: Investing in rural businesses and enterprises

Extent: S

(1) Assisting persons to—
(a) start a business or enterprise (whether or not for profit)—
(i) relating to agriculture, food production or processing, forestry, nature restoration or other rural land use activity, or
(ii) otherwise, in or for a rural area or community,
(b) develop, sustain or change such a business or enterprise (including improving productivity or diversifying into other activities),
(c) improve the resilience of such a business or enterprise,
(d) recover from or adapt to events which have (or may have) a negative impact (including exceptional adverse events such as a natural disaster or the outbreak of a disease or pests) on such a business or enterprise or the activities of such a business or enterprise.
(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, “enterprise” includes co-operative societies and similar organisations.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/11/schedule/1/paragraph/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-rural-communities-scotland-act-2024/schedule-1/paragraph-9
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