Farm Improvements (Standard Costs) Regulations, 1959
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1959/1555 |
| Year | 1959 |
1959 No. 1555
The Farm Improvements (Standard Costs) Regulations, 19593rdSeptember 1959
10thSeptember 1959
17thSeptember 1959
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with agriculture in Scotland and Northern Ireland, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section thirteen of the Agriculture Act, 1957(a), and of all other powers them
(a) 5 & 6 Eliz. 2. c. 57.
enabling in that behalf, with the consent of the Treasury, hereby make the following regulations:—
1. These regulations may be cited as the Farm Improvements (Standard Costs) Regulations, 1959; and shall come into operation on the 17th day of September, 1959.
2.—(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:—
" approved " means approved by the Minister;
" improvement " means an improvement comprising one or more works;
" of framed construction " means, in relation to a building, constructed in such a manner that the roof is supported on stanchions, pillars or posts independently of the walls;
" of traditional construction " means, in relation to a building, constructed in such a manner that the roof is supported on load-bearing walls;
" the Minister " means, in relation to England and Wales or Northern Ireland, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and, in relation to Scotland, the Secretary of State;
" work " means a work of a description specified in the first column of Part I of the First Schedule to these regulations which is required for the making of any improvement, or any part thereof, and which is carried out in accordance with the requirements set out as respects that work in the second column of that Part of that Schedule.
(2) In these regulations, any work referred to by a number means the work so numbered in Part I of the First Schedule to these regulations; and, in relation to any such work, " requirements " means the requirements there set out as respects that work.
(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889(a), shall apply to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
(4) These regulations shall have effect only as respects proposed improvements, or parts thereof, approved while the regulations are in force; and the Farm Improvements (Standard Costs) Regulations, 1958(b), shall cease to have effect as respects any such improvement or part thereof.
3.—(1) The cost of any improvement, or of any part thereof, shall, at the option of the applicant for a grant under section twelve of the Agriculture Act, 1957, be taken to be an amount calculated at the appropriate rate or rates specified in the third column of Part I of the First Schedule to these regulations in respect of the work or works required for making such improvement or part thereof :
Provided that the amount so calculated shall, in any of the circumstances referred to in Part II of the First Schedule to these regulations, be varied in accordance with the provisions there set out relating to the circumstances.
(a) 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.
(b) S.I. 1958/627 (1958 I, p. 118).
(2) Where any building or any material used in connection with any work is a building of a type or material of a kind referred to in the Second Schedule to these regulations, the building or material, as the case may be, shall conform to the general conditions therein set out in respect of such building or material.
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed this twenty-second day of August, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine.
John Hare, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
(L.S.)
Given under the Seal of the Secretary of State for Scotland this twenty-fifth day of August, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine.
Home, One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
(L.S.)
Given under the hand of the Secretary of State for the Home Department this twenty-seventh day of August, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine.
R. A. Butler, Secretary of State for the Home Department.
We consent this third day of September, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine.
Martin Redmayne, P. E. O. Bryan. Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.
FIRST SCHEDULE
PART I
Where any rate set out in this Part of this Schedule in respect of any work is a rate per unit of measurement, any fraction of a unit shall be disregarded for the purpose of calculating the cost of that work.
Work Requirements Rate
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
BUILDINGS £ s. d
1. Totally enclosed The building shall be of traditional Per square foot of
general purpose or framed construction and shall floor area
building have a minimum width of 15′ 0″ and (a) if of traditional
a minimum height of 8′ 0″ between construction
floor level and the eaves. Adequate (i) for the first
doors, windows and roof lights 1,000 square
shall be provided in accordance feet 13 3
with the needs of the building. (ii) for the next
2,000 square
feet 10 0
(iii) for the next
2,000 square
feet 8 6
(iv) thereafter 7 0
(b) if of framed
construction
(including
foundations)
(i) for the first
1,000 square
feet 12 0
(ii) for the next
2,000 square
feet 8 0
(iii) for the next
2,000 square
feet 7 0
(iv) thereafter 6 0
2. Open-fronted The building shall have a minimum Per square foot of
building of width of 18′ 0″ and a minimum floor area
traditional clear height of 8′ 0″ at the (a) for the first
construction open front. Adequate natural 1,000 square feet 10 0
lighting and outlet ventilation (b) for the next
shall be provided in accordance 2,000 square feet 8 0
with the needs of he building. (c) for the next
2,000 square feet 7 6
(d) thereafter 6 6
3. Dairy (a) The building shall be of Per square foot of
traditional or framed floor area 1 5 0
construction and shall have a
minimum height of 8′ 0″ to the
eaves
(b) Adequate doors, windows and
roof lights shall be provided
in accordance with the needs
of the building. An adequate
water supply, with all
necessary equipment, shall be
provided and adequate
arrangements made for the
disposal of floor drainage to
a suitable outfall
(c) The building shall conform to
the requirements—
(i) in relation to England
and Wales, of any Milk
and Dairies Regulations
for the time being in
force under the FFood and
Drugs Act, 1955
(ii) in relation to Scotland
of all byelaws for the
time being in force under
ssection 8 of the Milk and
Dairies (Scotland)
Act, 1914;
(iii) in relation to Northern
Ireland, of the Milk
Regulations (Northern
Ireland) 1951, or of any
modification or re-enactment
thereof for the time being
in force.
4. Milking parlour (a) The building shall conform to the Per square foot of
requirements for work 3. floor area
(b) Internal partitions shall be (a) A breast or
constructed of 4½″ brick walling herringbone type 1 6 0
or the equivalent thereof in other (b) Tandem type 1 10 0
approved material. Cow stalls and (c) Chute type 1 12 6
gates shall be of galvanised steel
tubing of approved design.
5. Cowhouse (a) The building shall conform to Per cow
requirements (a) and (b) for work (a) with feeding
3 and, if it is to be used for passage
milk production, to requirement (i) for the first
(c) for that work. 12 cows 57 0 0
(b) Brick, concrete or tubular steel (ii) for the next
stall divisions and concrete or 12 cows 43 0 0
stoneware mangers shall be (iii) thereafter 40 0 0
provided as necessary. (b) without feeding
passage
(i) for the first
12 cows 51 0 0
(ii) for the next
12 cows 37 0 0
(iii) thereafter 34 0 0
6. Pig fattening (a) The building shall be of the Per pig unit 13 10 0
house Scandinavian, Harper Adams,
McGuckian, Jordan or other
approved design.
(b) The building shall be of
traditional or framed
construction, save that—
(i) where the walls of sleeping
quarters form the external
walls of the building they
shall be of continuous
cavity construction; and
(ii) weatherboarding, galvanised
corrugated steel, aluminium
alloy or asbestos cement
sheeting shall not be used
alone unless approved
measures for insulation and
strengthening are also
taken internally.
(c) Internal division walls and
walls of outside runs shall be
not less than 4′ 0″ high and
constructed of brickwork not
less than 4½″ thick or the
equivalent thereof in other
approved material.
(d) The floor shall be laid to
appropriate falls including all
channels necessary for drainage;
adequate arrangements shall be
made for the disposal of foul
drainage and floor water
effluent to a suitable outfall.
An adequate supply of water
together with all necessary
equipment, and feeding troughs
of an approved and permanent
type of construction shall be
provided. The front of each pen
above the feeding trough shall
be made of galvanised steel
tubing of at least 1½″ internal
diameter or other approved type
of design.
For the purposes of this work, one pig unit shall be represented, in the case of a building of—
(a) Scandinavian or Jordan design, by 9 square feet of sleeping area and 3 square feet of dunging area;
(b) Harper Adams design, by 9 square feet of sleeping area and 16 square feet in the outside run;
(c) McGuckian design, by 9 square feet of sleeping area and 9 square feet in the outside run;
(d) any other design,...To continue reading
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