
1 
This Scheme may be cited as the Farm Woodland (Amendment) Scheme 1997 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made or 1st April 1997 if later.
2 

(1) The Farm Woodland Scheme 1988 shall be amended in accordance with the following sub-paragraphs of this paragraph.
(2) Paragraph 3(2)(b) (requirements for entry into the Scheme) shall be deleted except for the word “; and” at the end.
(3) In paragraph 8 (requirements for persons taking part in the Scheme)—
(a) in each of sub-paragraphs (1)(c) and (d), after the words “agricultural business” there shall be added the words “, if any,”; and
(b) sub-paragraph (2) shall be deleted.
(4) Schedule 1 (rates of grant for categories of woodlands) shall be replaced by the following Schedule—
SCHEDULE 1
Paragraph 9


Column 1 Column 2
Categories of converted woodlands Amount of grant payable per hectare per annum
 £
Converted woodlands formerly arable land—
 if severely disadvantaged land before conversion 120

 if disadvantaged land before conversion 180

 if neither severely disadvantaged nor disadvantaged land before conversion 230
Converted woodlands formerly improved grassland—
 if severely disadvantaged land before conversion 110

 if disadvantaged land before conversion 160

 if neither severely disadvantaged nor disadvantaged land before conversion 200
Converted woodlands converted from land in agricultural use (other than use as arable land or improved grassland) which was either severely disadvantaged land or disadvantaged land before conversion 30
Tony Baldry
Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
10th March 1997Lindsay
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
11th March 1997Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Jonathan Evans
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
11th March 1997We approve
Roger Knapman
Patrick McLoughlin
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
13th March 1997