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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-improvement-amendment-no-2-regulations-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1982",
  "legislation_title": "The Agriculture Improvement (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-improvement-amendment-no-2-regulations-1988",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Agriculture Improvement Regulations 1985 (“the principal Regulations”), implementing in part the provisions of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 797/85 (OJ No. L93, 30.3.85, p.1) on improving the efficiency of agricultural structures, as amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1760/87 (OJ No. L167, 26.6.87, p.1), and Council Directive No. 75/268/EEC (OJ No. L128, 19.5.75, p.1) on mountain and hill farming and farming in certain less-favoured areas.\nThe Regulations introduce new grants for agricultural businesses in the Isles of Scilly in respect of expenditure of a capital nature incurred on or after 17th November 1988 in pursuance of approved improvement plans where the expenditure relates to any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in column 1 of new Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (regulations 2, 7 and 12 and Schedule). The rates of grant are set out (regulation 8(b) and Schedule). A higher rate of grant may be payable for businesses carried on by young farmers or by partnerships in which young farmers are partners (regulation 8(c)).\nAny claims for grant in respect of any of the new Schedule 2 items must be received on or before 16th November 1994 (regulation 9) and grant is not payable in relation to expenditure incurred on or after 17th November 1993 (regulation 10).\nThe Regulations also—\n(a) disapply certain financial restrictions in the principal Regulations on the approval of improvement plans where proposed expenditure relates to any work, facility or transaction of a kind referred to in paragraph 5 of new Schedule 2 (shelter hedges) (regulation 6);\n(b) make consequential amendments (regulations 4, 5, 8(a) and 11).",
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  "version": "current",
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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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