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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vocational-training-grants-agriculture-and-forestry-regulations-2000/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3045",
  "legislation_title": "The Vocational Training Grants (Agriculture and Forestry) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vocational-training-grants-agriculture-and-forestry-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“agricultural\" has the meaning given to it by section 109(3) of the Agriculture Act 1947 ;\n“applicant\" means a person who has made an application pursuant to regulation 4, the result of which is still pending;\n“approved project\" means a project which has been approved by the Minister under these Regulations and “approve\" and “approval\" shall be construed accordingly;\n“Community assistance\" means assistance from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund granted pursuant to the Community legislation;\n“the Community legislation\" means the instruments listed in the Schedule to these Regulations, in so far as they relate to support for vocational training pursuant to Article 9 of Council Regulation 1257/1999/EC;\n“conversion\" means the conversion from one type of agricultural or forestry activity to another, or from those activities to activities other than agricultural or forestry activities;\n“Council Regulation 1257/1999/EC\" means Council Regulation (EC) No. 1257/1999 of 17 May 1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) ;\n“electronic communication\" has the same meaning as in the Electronic Communications Act 2000 ;\n“the ERDP\" means the England Rural Development Programme approved by the Commission in the Decision referred to in the Schedule to these Regulations, and “the relevant part of the ERDP\" means that part of the ERDP which relates to support for vocational training pursuant to Article 9 of Council Regulation 1257/1999/EC;\n“financial assistance\" means an amount paid or payable under these Regulations;\n“forestry\" means the planting and maintaining of forests and woodlands, and the associated cultivation and maintenance of trees, and “woodlands\" includes the use of land for woodlands where that use is ancillary to the farming of land for other agricultural purposes;\n“the Minister\" means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;\n“trainee\" means a person who has been granted approval for a project which concerns his training; and\n“training provider\" means a person who has been granted approval for a project which concerns the provision of training to others.\n(2) A reference in these Regulations to anything done in writing or produced in written form includes a reference to an electronic communication which has been recorded and is consequently capable of being reproduced.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "10 & 11 Geo. 6 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "OJ No. L160, 26.6.1999, p.80."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "2000 c. 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3045/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:10:40.993206+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."
}