{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-grants-act-northern-ireland-1967/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-grants-act-northern-ireland-1967/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1967/8",
  "legislation_title": "Fishing Vessels (Grants) Act (Northern Ireland) 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-grants-act-northern-ireland-1967",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Grants in relation to fishing vessels.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Ministry of Agriculture may, in accordance with a scheme made by that Ministry with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, make out of moneys provided by Parliament to any person carrying on or proposing to carry on a business in the fishing industry in Northern Ireland a grant towards so much of the expenditure incurred by that person—\n(a) in providing a fishing vessel; or\n(b) in providing an engine for a fishing vessel; or\n(c) in improving a sea fishing vessel;\nfor use for the purposes of that business as may be approved by the Ministry of Agriculture in pursuance of the scheme.\n(2) [ Subject to subsection (2A),] no grant shall be made in pursuance of a scheme under this Act in respect of expenditure incurred in providing any vessel, engine, part, equipment or apparatus which appears to the Ministry of Agriculture to be second-hand.\n[ (2A) A grant may be made in pursuance of a scheme under this Act in respect of that part of the expenditure (approved as mentioned in subsection (1)), incurred in providing a second-hand vessel, which is attributable to any liability to repay—\n(a)a grant under this Act or any other statutory provision; or\n(b)a grant under the law of any other part of the United Kingdom;\nin respect of the vessel or any engine, part, equipment or apparatus therein.]\n(3) A scheme made under this Act—\n(a) may provide for—\n(i) repayment of grant in specified circumstances;\n(ii) the imposition of penalties in respect of contraventions of provisions of the scheme;\nPara.(b) rep. by 1979 NI 12\n(c) shall be subject to affirmative resolution.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1972 c.4 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1972 c.4 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1979 NI 12"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1967/8/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:31:48.429615+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}