Explanatory note

These regulations amend the Farm and Horticulture Development Regulations 1981 by making provision for grant to be claimed under the regulations towards the cost of replacing apple orchards or pear orchards (other than such orchards producing cider apples or perry pears) grubbed up after 7th November 1982 by an equal or smaller area of either apple orchards or pear orchards (depending on the type of orchard grubbed up) containing:—

(i) apple trees or pear trees respectively of specified varieties (Cox's Orange Pippin apple, Bramley's Seedling apple and Spartan apple or Conference pear and Doyenne du Comice pear);

(ii) any other named varieties of apple trees or pear trees required for pollination (other than varieties producing cider apples or perry pears) not exceeding in number one third of the total of the specified varieties;

(iii) in the case of apple orchards, any number of crab apple trees or hybrid varieties of crab apple trees required for pollination.

Grant is only payable towards the cost of replacements taking place after 7th November 1982 and before 1st April 1988 provided that the replacement is included (by means of a variation) in an approved development plan and the claim for grant is received on or before 31st March 1988. In cases where the original application for assistance for a development plan was received on or after 1st February 1980 grant will be payable at the rate of 32.5 per cent, or at 25 per cent for agricultural businesses and 30 per cent for horticultural businesses in cases of such applications received before that date (although in the latter two cases grant may be paid at the rate of 32.5 per cent with the consent of the appropriate Minister).