{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-diversification-programme-scotland-regulations-1995/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3295",
  "legislation_title": "The Rural Diversification Programme (Scotland) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-diversification-programme-scotland-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“agriculture” has the same meaning as in section 85(1) of the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 and\n“agricultural” shall be construed accordingly;\n“agricultural holding” means an agricultural holding within the meaning of the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991;\n“agricultural unit” means an agricultural holding or smallholding within the programme area;\n“animal” has the same meaning as in the Zoo Licensing Act 1981;\n“application” means an application for financial assistance under the programme made in accordance with regulation 4 and “applicant” and “apply” shall be construed accordingly;\n“approved” means approved by the Secretary of State in writing and “approve” and “approval” shall be construed accordingly;\n“eligible expenditure” means expenditure (including reasonable professional fees and charges) approved in relation to a measure to be undertaken under the programme;\n“eligible person” has the meaning specified in regulation 3;\n“livestock” includes any creature kept for the production of food, wool, skins, or fur or for use in the farming of land;\n“measure” means a diversification measure specified in Schedule 2;\n“nursery stock” means trees (but not for afforestation) shrubs, herbaceous and alpine plants;\n“part of the programme area” means either—\n(a) Borders Region; or\n(b) Dumfries and Galloway Region; or\n(c) the area specified in Part A (Rural Stirling and Upland Tayside) of Schedule 1; or\n(d) the area specified in Part B (North and West Grampian) of that Schedule;\n“programme” means the programme to assist the economic diversification of the agricultural sector within the programme area by implementation of the measures set out in Schedule 2;\n“programme area” means the area of Scotland referred to in regulation 1(2);\n“relevant part of the programme area” means the part of the programme area in which the agricultural unit which is relevant for the purpose of establishing eligibility under regulation 3 lies;\n“set-aside land” means set-aside land as defined in regulation 2 of the Set-Aside Regulations 1988;\n“smallholding” means any holding within the meaning of section 2 and section 32 of the Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911;\n“ward” means a ward for district council elections as at 7th May 1992.\n(2) References in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the regulation or Schedule so numbered in these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c. 55."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1981 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/1352; amended by S.I. 1989/1042, 1990/1716 and 1991/1993."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1911 c. 49; section 2 was extended by the Small Landholders and Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1931 (c. 44), section 14 and both section 2 and 32 were restricted by the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1955 (c. 21), Schedule 6, Part I."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/651",
      "affecting_title": "The Rural Diversification Programme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3295/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:55:12.607152+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."
}