# The Farm Diversification Grant Scheme 1987, Section 9: Amounts of grant


(1) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph and to paragraph 12, the amount of any grant payable under paragraph 8(1) towards expenditure in respect of any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in column 2 of the Schedule, shall be twenty-five per cent of that expenditure.
(2) In the case of expenditure which is incurred by—
(a) a young farmer who fulfils the requirements specified in sub-paragraph (3) below; or
(b) a young farmers' partnership in respect of which the requirements specified in sub-paragraph (4) below are fulfilled;
the amount of grant so payable shall be thirty-one and one quarter per cent.
(3) The requirements in relation to a young farmer are that he—
(a) is less than forty years of age on the date on which he submits a farm diversification plan to the appropriate Minister;
(b) is at that date the sole owner or sole tenant of the land on which he carries on his agricultural business, including the land on which he carries on or intends to carry on the ancillary farm business to which the plan relates;
(c) submits a farm diversification plan to the appropriate Minister within five years of the date on which he became sole owner or sole tenant of the land on which he carries on his agricultural business, including the land on which he carries on or intends to carry on the ancillary farm business to which the plan relates;
(d) has not previously been responsible for carrying out a farm diversification plan under this Scheme as an individual carrying on an agricultural business or a person carrying on an agricultural business in partnership or an owner of land occupied for the purposes of the pursuit of agriculture; and
(e) holds an appropriate certificate relating to the possession of agricultural skill and competence issued by a teaching establishment recognised for that purpose by the appropriate Minister.
(4) The requirements in relation to a young farmers' partnership are that—
(a) a partner in that partnership fulfils the requirements set out in sub-paragraph (3) (d) and (e) above and submits a farm diversification plan to the appropriate Minister within five years of the date on which he became sole or joint owner or sole or joint tenant of the land on which he carries on an agricultural business in partnership, including the land on which he carries on or intends to carry on the ancillary farm business to which the plan relates;
(b) all the partners in the partnership are less than forty years of age on the date on which the farm diversification plan is submitted to the appropriate Minister; and
(c) the partnership exists for the purposes of carrying on the agricultural business of which the ancillary farm business to which the plan relates forms or will form part.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1949/section/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/farm-diversification-grant-scheme-1987/section-9
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