Financial Assistance for Young Farmers Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2005
Northern Ireland Statutory Rule 2005 No. 69 — creates 2 criminal offences.
- Made
- 3 March 2005
- In force from
- 4 April 2005
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Agriculture, plant health, food production and rural affairs
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The Scheme set out in the Schedule to this Order makes provision for grant towards expenditure incurred in servicing loans obtained by young persons for the purposes of, or in connection with, the implementation of a business plan relating to the establishment, expansion or carrying on of an agricultural business. A young person is defined, for the purposes of the Scheme, as a person under the age of 40 at the time he makes an application for grant under the Scheme. The Scheme – a provides for applications (Article 4); b sets a closing date of 3 April 2008 for applications (Article 5); c sets limits on the amount of grant payable under the Scheme to any young person (Article 6); d enables the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (“the Department”), having regard to the financial resources which are available for the payment of grant, to suspend further consideration of applications until such time as may be specified by it (Article 7); e imposes record keeping requirements on persons benefiting from the Scheme (Article 8); f confers powers of entry and inspection on persons authorised by the Department (Article 9); g provides for the determination of interest on amounts recoverable from persons who had received payments under the Scheme (Article 10); and h creates offences and penalties (Article 11).
Offences created by this instrument
- If any person, for the purpose of obtaining for himself or any other person, any grant under Article 3, knowingly or… paragraph 11(1) of SCHEDULE · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- If any person intentionally obstructs an authorised person (or a person accompanying him and acting under his… paragraph 11(2) of SCHEDULE · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
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