Section 5 Restrictions on approval of farm diversification plans

on completion of the plan the ancillary farm business to which the plan relates will be capable of being carried on as a profit-making enterprise; or

the completion of the plan will bring about a lasting improvement in the economic situation of the agricultural business of which the ancillary farm business forms or will form part.

proposed expenditure amounting in aggregate to less than £750 or more than £35,000;

proposed expenditure which, in the opinion of the appropriate Minister, would in any six-year period exceed £35,000 when added to other expenditure which has been incurred in the six-year period in question in relation to the same agricultural business and which is included in any previous farm diversification plan approved under this scheme;

proposed expenditure in relation to the provision of horses and ponies for hire outside a less-favoured area;

proposed expenditure in relation to the purchase of land or buildings.

is affected by a current farm diversification plan approved under this Scheme, or

is affected by a current improvement plan approved under the Agriculture Improvement Regulations 1985^f1 and that improvement plan includes proposed expenditure in connection with any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in paragraph 12 or 13 in column 1 of the Schedule to those Regulations.