Section 3 Application for grant
Any person engaged or proposing to be engaged in the sea fish industry by carrying on the business of owning and operating one or more vessels registered in the United Kingdom for the purpose of catching sea fish may apply to the Ministers for a grant in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred, subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, in making an improvement to a vessel registered or intended to be registered in the United Kingdom and engaged or to be engaged in the catching of sea fish, where the improvement relates only to equipment required for, or installed or used on, such a vessel to enable its owner to obtain a fishing vessel certificate under the provisions of the Fishing Vessels (Safety Provisions) Rules 1975f1.
No grant shall be payable under this Scheme in respect of—
expenditure incurred or to be incurred in the acquisition or installation of any second-hand equipment;
expenditure incurred or to be incurred in relation to an improvement in so far as, in the opinion of the Ministers, such expenditure can be regarded as laid out on the routine repair or maintenance of equipment required for the vessel or installed or used thereon; or
expenditure incurred before 1st January 1992 or, in the case of an application made on or after 30th June 1993, expenditure incurred before making the application.
Applications for grant under this Scheme shall be made in writing in such form as the Ministers may from time to time require, and shall be delivered to them at such address as they may at any time or in any particular case direct.