# The Fruiting Plum Tree (Planting Grants) Scheme 1979, Note: Explanatory note


This Scheme, which applies in England and Wales, authorises the payment of grant towards expenditure incurred for the purposes of, or in connection with, a plum production business. Such expenditure must be in respect of the purchase and planting of fruiting plum trees which have been certified by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, as being apparently free from virus diseases including sharka disease and apparently true to varietal type.
Provision is made for the approval of expenditure by the appropriate Minister, who may impose conditions on the approval.
Grant payable under the Scheme in the period ending 31st July 1980 will be 50p for each certified maiden tree purchased and planted as approved and £1 for each two or three year old certified fruiting plum tree purchased and planted. After that period the amount of grant shall be of such amounts as shall be determined by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food with the approval of the Treasury.
The Scheme lays down restrictions on payment on grant. No grant is payable where fewer than 10 trees are purchased and planted or in respect of a plum production business which has less than 0·20 hectares of land planted up with fruiting plum trees. It is also provided that grant may be reduced or withheld where grant-aid in respect of the expenditure has been given otherwise than under the Scheme.
Conditions on the payment of grant are set out in paragraph 6. Proposals must be carried out in a proper manner and in compliance with any conditions imposed by the appropriate Minister at the time of approval or, in relation to any modification made to the proposals, at the time of modification. In addition, for a period of 24 months following the completion of the work the recipient must carry on an agricultural business capable of passing a sufficient livelihood test and in addition occupying not less than 0·20 hectares of land devoted entirely to commercial plum fruit production.
The Scheme comes into operation on 1st August 1979 and the latest date for applications is 31st July 1986.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/876/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/fruiting-plum-tree-planting-grants-scheme-1979/note
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