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SCOTTISH STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2004 No. 128

AGRICULTURE

The Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004

  Made 15th March 2004 
  Laid before the Scottish Parliament 16th March 2004 
  Coming into force 18th March 2004 

The Scottish Ministers in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[1] and of all powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 18th March 2004.

Amendment of the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2004
    
2.  - (1) The Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2004[2] are amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

    (2) For regulation 14(3)(e), substitute-

    (3) For regulation 18, substitute-

    (4) In Part I of Schedule 2, for item 8 substitute-

    (5) For Schedule 9, substitute the Schedule contained in the Schedule to these Regulations.


ALLAN WILSON
Authorised to sign on behalf of the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew's House, Edinburgh
15th March 2004



SCHEDULE
Regulation 2(5)



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations amend the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2004 ("the principal Regulations"). The amendments come into force on 18th March 2004.

Regulation 14(3)(e) of the principal Regulations is amended so that authorised persons are permitted to inspect and verify that environmental controls have been complied with as well as usual good farming practices (regulation 2(2)).

Regulation 18 of the principal Regulations is amended to clarify that Schedule 8 applies to agency arrangements and cross-border holdings (regulation 2(3)).

A minor amendment is made to Schedule 2 of the principal Regulations to update a legislative reference (regulation 2(4)).

Schedule 9 of the principal Regulations is replaced to correct minor errors in the boundary definition of the original description of the Cowal Peninsula (regulation 2(5)).


Notes:

[1] 1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46), Schedule 8, paragraph 15(3). The function conferred upon the Minister of the Crown under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, insofar as within devolved competence, was transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998.back

[2] S.S.I. 2004/70.back

[3] S.S.I. 2003/579.back



ISBN 0 11069039 7


 
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Prepared 25 March 2004


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