Article 3 Eligible expenditure and amount of grant

Subject to the provisions of this scheme the appropriate Minister may make to any person carrying on, or intending to carry on, a plum production business a grant towards expenditure incurred or to be incurred by him for the purposes of or in connection with the carrying on or establishment of such a business, being expenditure in respect of the purchase and planting of certified fruiting plum trees and which is approved for the purposes of a grant under this scheme.

The appropriate Minister may refuse to approve the expenditure in respect of which the grant is claimed or may approve it in whole or in part. An approval (whether it relates to the whole or part of the expenditure) may be given subject to such conditions (if any) as the appropriate Minister thinks fit for the purposes of the scheme.

Where a grant is paid under this scheme it shall, in respect of approved expenditure incurred in the period ending 31st July 1980, be 50p for each maiden certified fruiting plum tree purchased and planted and £1 for each two or three year old certified fruiting plum tree purchased and planted. In respect of approved expenditure incurred after 31st July 1980 the grant payable under this scheme shall be of such amounts as shall be determined by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food with the approval of the Treasury.