{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-industry-development-scheme-1997/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-industry-development-scheme-1997/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2673",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Industry Development Scheme 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-industry-development-scheme-1997",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Priority in approving applications under the Food Industry Development Scheme",
  "text": "(1) In the event that the total of the grant sought at a particular time by all applicants whose applications are suitable to be approved under the conditions set out in this Scheme exceeds the funds then available to the appropriate Minister to make grant payments, then the appropriate Minister shall so approve them in order of priority based on which of the applications in question best meets the considerations set out in Schedule 1 to this Scheme, until the availability of the funds in question is exhausted.\n(2) In Schedule 1 to this Scheme, “small and medium sized enterprises” means enterprises which the appropriate Minister considers to be such, and for the purpose of considering that matter, he may take into account the meaning given in—\n(a) the Annex to Commission Recommendation 96/280/EC on the definition of small and medium sized enterprises, and\n(b) any future amendment to or replacement of that Recommendation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L107, 30.4.96, p.4."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2673/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:43:15.943422+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."
}