Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Scheme)

The Crofting Counties Agricultural Grants (Scotland) Scheme 1988, as amended by the Crofting Counties Agricultural Grants (Scotland) Amendment Scheme 1992, provides that the Secretary of State may make grants to crofters and certain other occupiers of land in the crofting counties for certain specified purposes.

This Scheme further amends the 1988 Scheme by–

(a)

distinguishing (paragraphs 3 and 6) the operations qualifying for grant under Part II into–

(i)

those in respect of which the cost of the operation must be approved before work is started; and

(ii)

those in respect of which the cost of the operation need only be approved when grant is claimed;

(b)

providing for payment of grant under Part II or Part III in instalments (paragraph 5);

(c)

providing for recovery of grant or instalments of grant where an applicant fails to comply with conditions attaching to approval of costs or to payment of grant or instalments of grant (paragraph 5).

Paragraph 7 provides that the amendments made by this Scheme shall not apply to any application made before 15th April 1994 under Part II for approval of costs, or under Part III for grant. Any such application shall proceed under the 1988 Scheme as it applied at the date of the application.