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FISHING VESSELS (GRANTS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 1

1.(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Ministry of Agriculture may,
in accordance with a scheme made by that Ministry with the approval of the
Ministry of Finance, make out of moneys provided by Parliament to any person
carrying on or proposing to carry on a business in the fishing industry in
Northern Ireland a grant towards so much of the expenditure incurred by that
person

(a)in providing a fishing vessel; or

(b)in providing an engine for a fishing vessel; or

(c)in improving a sea fishing vessel;

(2) [Subject to subsection (2A),] no grant shall be made in pursuance of a
scheme under this Act in respect of expenditure incurred in providing any
vessel, engine, part, equipment or apparatus which appears to the Ministry of
Agriculture to be second-hand.

[(2A) A grant may be made in pursuance of a scheme under this Act in respect
of that part of the expenditure (approved as mentioned in subsection (1)),
incurred in providing a second-hand vessel, which is attributable to any
liability to repay

(a)a grant under this Act or any other statutory provision; or

(b)a grant under the law of any other part of the United Kingdom;

(3) A scheme made under this Act

(a)may provide for

(i)repayment of grant in specified circumstances;

(ii)the imposition of penalties in respect of contraventions of provisions of
the scheme;

Para.(b) rep. by 1979 NI 12 art.11(2) sch.5

(c)shall be subject to affirmative resolution.

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