{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-and-conservation-grant-regulations-1991/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-and-conservation-grant-regulations-1991/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1630",
  "legislation_title": "The Farm and Conservation Grant Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-and-conservation-grant-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Improvement plans",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate Minister shall not approve any proposed expenditure for the purposes of grant under these Regulations unless—\n(a) an improvement plan relating to that expenditure is submitted for the approval of the Minister,\n(b) the undertakings referred to in paragraph (3) below are given by an eligible person in relation to that plan, and\n(c) the plan is approved.\n(2) An improvement plan submitted for approval under these Regulations shall be set out in such form as the appropriate Minister may from time to time require and the person submitting it shall furnish all such particulars and information relating thereto as the appropriate Minister may require, and in particular—\n(a) sufficient information to show that the person undertaking to carry out the plan is an eligible person and that the plan relates to an eligible agricultural business;\n(b) a description of that agricultural business at the time of submission of the plan for approval and of the land to which the plan relates;\n(c) a description of that agricultural business on completion of the plan in the form of an estimated budget, an estimate of the earned income per labour unit reasonably required in the carrying on of the business on completion of the plan and an estimate of the number of such labour units;\n(d) an indication of the measures to be taken and, in particular, of the investments to be made and the timing of such investments, in order to achieve the aim of the plan and a list of any agreements to purchase land or take land on lease made in order to achieve an increase in the area of land occupied for the purposes of the agricultural business to which the plan relates.\n(3) The undertakings to be given in accordance with paragraph (1)(b) above are that if the plan submitted for approval is approved it will be carried out, and that accounts will be kept in accordance with regulation 11(1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1630/regulation/5",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}