{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plum-material-and-clearance-grants-scheme-1979/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plum-material-and-clearance-grants-scheme-1979/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/877",
  "legislation_title": "The Plum Material and Clearance Grants Scheme 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plum-material-and-clearance-grants-scheme-1979",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Scheme, which applies in England and Wales, authorises the payment of grant towards capital expenditure for the purposes of, or in connection with, a plum material business as defined in the Scheme. Grant payable under the Scheme is limited to 25% of the total expenditure approved by the appropriate Minister.\nProvision is made for the approval of proposals by the appropriate Minister, who may impose conditions on the approval.\nThe Scheme lays down restrictions on the payment of grant. No grant is payable where the total expenditure to be incurred is less than £100 or where the total area occupied by plum material or by plum material and lined-out root-stocks does not fall within the minimum and maximum areas specified. 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.\nConditions 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 0·05 hectares of land devoted entirely to the growing of plum material for sale.\nThe Scheme comes into operation on 1st August 1979 and the latest date for application is 31st July 1986.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/877/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:15:45.599896+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."
}