# The Farm Woodland (Amendment) Scheme 1997

S.I. 1997/828 · made 13 March 1997

This Scheme amends the Farm Woodland Scheme 1988 (“the principal Scheme”). This Scheme applies to Great Britain.

Made under: Farm Land and Rural Development Act 1988 (Section 2)

## Introductory text

AGRICULTURE
Approved by both Houses of ParliamentMade 13th March 1997
Coming into force in accordance with paragraph 1
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 2 of the Farm Land and Rural Development Act 1988 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, with the approval of the Treasury, hereby make the following Scheme of which a draft has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, each House of Parliament:

## 1 Title and commencement

This Scheme may be cited as the Farm Woodland (Amendment) Scheme 1997 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made or 1st April 1997 if later.

## 2 Amendment of the Farm Woodland Scheme 1988

(1) The Farm Woodland Scheme 1988 shall be amended in accordance with the following sub-paragraphs of this paragraph.
(2) Paragraph 3(2)(b) (requirements for entry into the Scheme) shall be deleted except for the word “; and” at the end.
(3) In paragraph 8 (requirements for persons taking part in the Scheme)—
(a) in each of sub-paragraphs (1)(c) and (d), after the words “agricultural business” there shall be added the words “, if any,”; and
(b) sub-paragraph (2) shall be deleted.
(4) Schedule 1 (rates of grant for categories of woodlands) shall be replaced by the following Schedule—

## Schedule 1 RATES OF GRANT FOR CATEGORIES OF WOODLANDS

Column 1
Column 2
Categories of converted woodlands
Amount of grant payable per hectare per annum
£
Converted woodlands formerly arable land—
if severely disadvantaged land before conversion
120
if disadvantaged land before conversion
180
if neither severely disadvantaged nor disadvantaged land before conversion
230
Converted woodlands formerly improved grassland—
if severely disadvantaged land before conversion
110
if disadvantaged land before conversion
160
if neither severely disadvantaged nor disadvantaged land before conversion
200
Converted woodlands converted from land in agricultural use (other than use as arable land or improved grassland) which was either severely disadvantaged land or disadvantaged land before conversion
30

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Scheme)
This Scheme amends the Farm Woodland Scheme 1988 (“the principal Scheme”). This Scheme applies to Great Britain.
The principal Scheme complies with Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2080/92 instituting a Community aid scheme for forestry measures in agriculture (OJ No. L215, 30.7.92, p.96).
This Scheme removes the requirement for participants in the scheme to continue to run an agricultural business, and for successors to initial entrants to run an agricultural business (paragraph 2). The Scheme also amends the rates of grant payable according to the use of the land prior to conversion to woodland (paragraph 2).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/828 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/farm-woodland-amendment-scheme-1997
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