Regulation 9 Improvement grants

(1)

Subject to the provisions of these regulations, the appropriate Minister may make to any eligible person a grant towards expenditure incurred by him for the purposes of, or in connection with, the carrying on of an eligible agricultural business, being expenditure which—

(a)

has been incurred in respect of any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in—

(i)

any of paragraphs 1 to 4, 5(b), 5(c), 5(d) and 6 to 15 in column 1 of the Schedule;

(ii)

in relation to Northern Ireland only, paragraph 5(a) in column 1 of the Schedule; and

(b)

appears to the appropriate Minister to be of a capital nature or to have been incurred in connection with expenditure of a capital nature, and

(c)

is included in, and appears to the appropriate Minister to be necessary or appropriate for the purposes of, an approved improvement plan for that business and to be the responsibility of that person.

(2)

The appropriate Minister may make the payment of grant under paragraph (1) above subject to such conditions as that Minister thinks fit, and any payment of grant under these regulations may be made at such time as that Minister may determine.

(3)

Where it appears to the appropriate Minister that expenditure in respect of which a grant is claimed under paragraph (1) above has been incurred partly for purposes which are eligible for grant under that paragraph and partly for purposes which are not so eligible, that Minister may for the purposes of a grant under that paragraph treat as having been incurred for purposes which are so eligible so much of that expenditure as appears to that Minister to be referable to those eligible purposes.