Section 3 Grants for fish farming projects

(1)

The appropriate Minister may make to any person a grant towards expenditure incurred, or to be incurred, in connection with a project for fish farming, if such grant appears to him—

(a)

to be desirable for the purpose of the reorganisation, development or promotion of fish farming in England, Scotland or Wales, as the case may be, and

(b)

to be requisite for the purpose of enabling the person to benefit from Community aid for a fish farming project covered by Title IV of the Council Regulation.

(2)

The appropriate Minister shall not make such a grant unless—

(a)

he has approved the expenditure, and

(b)

a decision that the project shall receive Community aid has been taken, and notified to the Unitied Kingdom, under article 35 of the Council Regulation.

(3)

The appropriate Minister may approve the expenditure in whole or in part for the purposes of a grant under this Scheme and any such approval may be given subject to such conditions as the appropriate Minister thinks fit.

(4)

Any approval of expenditure for the purposes of a grant under this Scheme may be varied or withdrawn by the appropriate Minister with the applicant’s written consent.

(5)

Any payment by way of a grant under this Scheme may be made at such time, or by such instalments at such intervals or times, as the appropriate Minister may determine.

(6)

Any application for approval of expenditure for the purposes of a grant under this Scheme shall be made in such form and manner and at such time as the appropriate Minister may from time to time determine; and the applicant shall furnish all such information relating to the application as the appropriate Minister shall require.