Farm Woodland (Amendment) Scheme 1997 (S.I. No. 828 of 1997)

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS 1997 No. 828 AGRICULTURE The Farm Woodland (Amendment) Scheme 1997 Approved by both Houses of Parliament Made - 13th March 1997 Coming into force in accordance with paragraph 1 The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 2 of the Farm Land and Rural Development Act 1988[1] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, with the approval of the Treasury, hereby make the following Scheme of which a draft has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, each House of Parliament: Title and commencement 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. Amendment of the Farm Woodland Scheme 1988 2 . - (1) The Farm Woodland Scheme 1988[2] 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 RATES OF GRANT FOR CATEGORIES OF WOODLANDS 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 1997 Lindsay Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office 11th March 1997 Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales Jonathan Grans Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office 11th March 1997 We approve Roger Knapman Patrick McLoughlin Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury 13th March 1997 EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Scheme) This Scheme amends the Farm Woodland Scheme 1988 ("the principal Scheme"). This Scheme applies to Great Britain. The principal Scheme complies with Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2080/92 instituting a Community aid scheme for forestry measures in agriculture (OJ No. L215, 30.7.92, p.96). This Scheme removes the requirement for participants in the scheme to continue to run an agricultural business, and for successors to initial entrants to run an agricultural business (paragraph 2). The Scheme also amends the rates of grant payable according to the use of the land prior to conversion to woodland (paragraph 2). Notes: [1] 1988 c. 16. The expression the appropriate authority upon whom the powers of section 2 are conferred is defined in section 2(6) and 1(5) of that Act and is to be read with the definition of the appropriate Minister in those sections. Section 2 was amended, in relation to Scotland, by section 3(2) of the Crofter Forestry (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 18). [2] S.I. 1988/1291, amended by S.I. 1991/1631, S.I. 1992/905.