Section 8 Farm diversification grants
Subject to the provisions of this Scheme, the appropriate Minister may make to any eligible person a grant towards expenditure incurred by him for the purposes of, or in connection with, the carrying on or establishment of an ancillary farm business, being expenditure which—
has been incurred in respect of any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in column 2 of the Schedule in relation to an ancillary farm business of a kind specified in column 1 of the Schedule; and
appears to the appropriate Minister to be of a capital nature or to have been incurred in connection with expenditure of a capital nature, and
is included in, and appears to the appropriate Minister to be necessary or appropriate for the purposes of, an approved farm diversification plan in respect of that business and to be the responsibility of that person.
The appropriate Minister may make the payment of grant under sub-paragraph (1) above subject to such conditions as that Minister sees fit, and in particular may require that the person currently responsible for the carrying on of the ancillary farm business in respect of which expenditure has been incurred shall furnish to that Minister copies of the accounts relating to that business and of the agricultural business of which it forms part in such form as that Minister may determine for a period not exceeding two years after the completion of the farm diversification plan.
Where it appears to the appropriate Minister that expenditure in respect of which grant is claimed under sub-paragraph (1) above has been incurred partly for purposes which are eligible for grant under that sub-paragraph and partly for purposes which are not so eligible, that Minister may for the purposes of grant under that sub-paragraph treat as having been incurred for the purposes which are so eligible so much of that expenditure as appears to that Minister to be referable to those eligible purposes.