Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Scheme)
The Crofting Counties Agricultural Grants (Scotland) Scheme 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/24) (“the 2006 Scheme”) enables the Scottish Ministers to make grants to crofters and certain occupiers and tenants of land in respect of—
specified operations carried out by them for the purpose of aiding and developing agricultural production on crofts or holdings (Part 2 of, and the Schedule to, the 2006 Scheme); and
contributions made by them under such agreements as are referred to in section 47 of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 towards the expenses of providing cattle grids (Part 3 of the 2006 Scheme).
This Scheme varies the 2006 Scheme by—
inserting definitions of applicable EU instruments (as the 2006 Scheme will continue to be funded, in part, from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development) (paragraph 3(2));
in relation to restrictions on payments of grants under Part 2 of, and the Schedule to, the 2006 Scheme—
substituting a new paragraph 6, to update the drafting and references to provisions of applicable EU instruments, in relation to restrictions on payments of grants under that Part of the 2006 Scheme (paragraph 3(3));
substituting a new paragraph 7, to revise the amount of grant payable under that Part of the 2006 Scheme (also paragraph 3(3)); and
to update the list of eligible operations in paragraph 1 of the Schedule in relation to that Part of the 2006 Scheme (paragraph 3(8));
in relation to restrictions on payments of grants under Part 3 of the 2006 Scheme, substituting a new paragraph 10, to revise the amount of grant payable under that Part of the 2006 Scheme (paragraph 3(4)); and
inserting a new Part 3A (paragraphs 10A to 10C), to make provision for the payment of grants in respect of the establishment of grazing committees in relation to a common grazing (paragraph 3(5)), with consequential amendments made to paragraphs 11A and 13 of the 2006 Scheme by paragraph 3(6) and (7).
Paragraph 4 makes a transitional and saving provision in respect of applications for grant made under the 2006 Scheme before 6th April 2015.
A business and regulatory impact assessment has been prepared for this Scheme and will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. A copy can be obtained from the Scottish Government Directorate for Agriculture, Food and Rural Communities, Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive, Edinburgh, EH11 3XD and online at www.legislation.gov.uk.