
1 
These regulations may be cited as the Agriculture and Horticulture Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1984 and shall come into operation on 12th December 1984.
2 
These regulations shall not apply in relation to—
(a) any work, facility or transaction included in an application received by the appropriate Minister before 12th December 1984 for approval of a development plan or for a variation of a development plan approved for the purposes of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Regulations 1980 (hereinafter called “the principal regulations”);
(b) any claim for grant towards expenditure incurred for the purposes of those regulations before that date;
and these regulations shall not affect the operation of the principal regulations in relation to any such work, facility or transaction or claim for grant.
3 
The principal regulations shall be further amended in accordance with regulations 4 and 5 of these regulations.
4 
In regulation 7(1) thereof (farm development and related grants) there shall be substituted for subparagraph (a) the following subparagraph—“

(a) has been incurred in respect of any work, facility or transaction of a kind specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 11, 12(i), 12(ii), 12(iii) and 13 to 21 of column 1 of the Schedule or, in relation to Northern Ireland only, paragraph 12(iv) thereof, and
”.

5 
In the Schedule thereto—
(a) in paragraph 1(ii) thereof in column 1 there shall be substituted for the words “designed and intended solely for the drying or storage of grain for consumption by livestock” the words “designed and intended for the drying or storage of grain for consumption solely by livestock”;
(b) in paragraph 7(i) thereof in columns 2, 3 and 4 there shall be substituted for the existing figures the figures “32.5”, “50” and “32.5” respectively;
(c) in paragraph 8 thereof in column 3 there shall be inserted after the figure “50” the symbol “*” and there shall be inserted at the end of the Schedule the following footnote—“

* In accordance with regulation 8(1) this rate of grant is available only to agricultural businesses situated on severely disadvantaged land.

”;

(d) in paragraph 10(i) and (ii) thereof in column 1 there shall be substituted for the existing descriptions the following descriptions—“


10 

(i) Provision, replacement or improvement of hedges, walls and dykes (where the walls and dykes are built of materials traditional in the locality) and associated gates.
(ii) Provision, replacement or improvement of permanent fences, walls and dykes (where the walls and dykes are not built of materials traditional in the locality) and associated gates.
”;

(e) for paragraph 12 thereof there shall be substituted the following paragraph in columns 1, 2, 3 and 4—“
12 
(i) Reseeding and regeneration of grassland, laying down of permanent pasture and bracken control, including as part of a complete programme of work the application of lime or fertilizer. 32.5 Nil Nil
(ii) Reseeding and regeneration of grassland and laying down of permanent pasture; bracken control; Nil 50 Nil
application of lime or fertilizer (other than normal husbandry applications) for the benefit of grassland. Nil 50 Nil
(iii) Burning heather or grass or making muirburn or regenerating heather by cutting. 32.5 50 32.5
(iv) In Northern Ireland only, reclamation of land, including the removal of obstructions to cultivation. 32.5 50 32.5”
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 6th December 1984.
Michael Jopling
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
George Younger
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
6th December 1984