Farm Improvements (Standard Costs) Regulations, 1960

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1960/931

1960 No. 931

The Farm Improvements (Standard Costs) Regulations, 1960

25thMay 1960

31stMay 1960

7thJune 1960

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 enabling them 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, 1960; and shall come into operation on the 7th day of June, 1960.

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 column 1 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 column 2 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(b), 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(c), and the Farm Improvements (Standard Costs) Regulations, 1959(d), shall not have effect as respects any such improvement or part thereof.

(a) 5 & 6 Eliz. 2. c. 57.

(b) 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.

(c) S.I. 1958/627 (1958 I, p. 118).

(d) S.I. 1959/1555 (1959 I, p. 1)

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 column 3 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.

(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 twentieth day of May, nineteen hundred and sixty.

John Hare, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

(L.S.)

Given under the Seal of the Secretary of State for Scotland this twenty-third day of May, nineteen hundred and sixty.

John S. Maclay, Secretary of State for Scotland.

(L.S.)

Given under the hand of the Secretary of State for the Home Department this twenty-fourth day of May, nineteen hundred and sixty.

R. A. Butler, Secretary of State for the Home Department.

We consent this twenty-fifth day of May, nineteen hundred and sixty.

Michael Hughes-Young, Graeme Bell Finlay, 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.

In this Part of this Schedule the expression "floor area" means—

(a) in relation to work 4, the floor area between the outside edges of the stanchions;

(b) save as aforesaid, in relation to a building, the internal floor area.

 Work Requirements Rate
                 Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
                 BUILDINGS £ s. d
                 1. Totally enclosed general The building shall have a Per square foot of floor area
                 purpose building of tradi- minimum width of 15′ 0″. (a) where the height between
                 tional construction. Adequate doors, windows floor and eaves is less
                 and roof lights shall be than 12′ 0″ but not
                 provided in accordance less than 8′ 0″
                 with the needs of the (i) for the first 1,000
                 building. square feet … … 13 6
                 (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) where the height between
                 floor and eaves is less
                 than 14′ 0″ but not less
                 than 12′ 0″
                 (i) for the first 1,000
                 square feet … … 16 3
                 (ii) for the next 2,000
                 square feet … … 11 0
                 (iii) for the next 2,000
                 square feet … … 9 0
                 (iv) thereafter … … 8 6
                 (c) where the height between
                 floor and eaves is less
                 than 16′ 0″ but not less
                 than 14′ 0″
                 (i) for the first 1,000
                 square feet … … 17 9
                 (ii) for the next 2,000
                 square feet … … 11 6
                 (iii) for the next 2,000
                 square feet … … 9 6
                 (iv) thereafter … … 9 3
                 (d) where the height between
                 floor and eaves is not
                 less than 16′ 0″
                 (i) for the first 1,000
                 square feet … … 19 3
                 (ii) for the next 2,000
                 square feet … … 12 0
                 (iii) for the next 2,000
                 square feet … … 9 9
                 (iv) thereafter … … 9 6
                 2. Totally enclosed general The building shall have a Per square foot of floor area
                 purpose building of framed minimum width of 15′ 0″. (a) where the height between
                 construction. Adequate doors, windows floor and eaves is less
                 and roof lights shall be than 12′ 0″ but not less
                 provided in accordance than 8′ 0″
                 with the needs of the (i) for the first 1,000
                 building. square feet … … 12 3
                 (ii) for the next 2,000
                 square feet … … 8 0
                 (iii) for the next 2,000
                 square feet … … 7 0
                 (iv) thereafter … … 6 0
                 (b) where the height between
                 floor and eaves is less
                 than 14′ 0″ but not less
                 than 12′ 0″
                 (i) for the first 1,000
                 square feet … … 15 3
                 (ii) for the next 2,000
                 square feet … … 8 3
                 (iii) for the next 2,000
                 square feet … … 8 0
                 (iv) thereafter … … 7 6
                 (c) where the height between
                 floor and eaves is less
                 than 16′ 0″ but not less
                 than 14′ 0″
                 (i) for the first 1,000
                 square feet … … 16 9
                 (ii) for the next 2,000
                 square feet … … 8 6
                 (iii) for the next 2,000
                 square feet … … 8 3
                 (iv) thereafter … … 8 0
                 (d) where the height between
                 floor and eaves is not
                 less than 16′ 0″
                 (i) for the first 1,000
                 square feet … … 18 3
                 (ii) for the next 2,000
                 square feet … … 9 0
                 (iii) for the next 2,000
                 square feet … … 8 6
                 (iv) thereafter … … 8 3
                 3. Open-fronted building of The building shall have a Per square foot of floor area
                 traditional construction. minimum width of 18′ 0″ (a) for the first 1,000
                 and a minimum clear square feet … … … 10 0
                 height of 8′ 0″ at the (b) for the next 2,000 square
                 open front. Adequate feet … … … … … 8 0
                 natural lighting shall (c) for the next 2,000 square
                 be provided in feet … … … … … 7 6
                 accordance with the (d) thereafter … … … 6 6
                 needs of the building
                 4. Dutch barn or covered (a) Where the frame
                 part of cattle yard or includes stanchions Per square foot of floor area
                 implement shed of, in each of— (a) if stanchions are of
                 case, framed construction (i) rolled steel round wood
                 (excluding foundations). joists, the (i) with 2 rows of
                 stanchions stanchions … … 4 9
                 shall be— (ii) with 1 row of
                 (a) not less stanchions … … 4 3
                 than 6′ ×
                 3′ in the
                 case of a
                 building
                 with a span
                 not
                 exceeding
                 21′ 0″ and
                 a height
                 not
                 exceeding
                 16′ 0″ to
                 the eaves
                 (b) not less (b) if stanchions are of any
                 than 7′ × other approved type
                 4′ in the (i) with 2 rows of
                 case of a stanchions … … 5 3
                 building (ii) with 1 row of
                 with a span stanchions … … 4 9
                 exceeding
                 21′ 0″ and plus for each square foot of
                 a height floor area in relation
                 exceeding to one building
                 16′ 0″ but (i) not in excess of the
                 not first 1,000 square
                 exceeding feet … … … 9
                 18′ 0″ to (ii) exceeding 1,000 and
                 the eaves; not exceeding 2,500
                 (c) not less square feet … … 6
                 than 8′ ×
                 4′ in the
                 case of a
                 building
                 with a span
                 exceeding
                 21′ 0″ and
                 a height
                 exceeding
                 18′ 0″ to
                 the eaves
                 (ii) tubular steel
                 the frame
                 shall be
                 constructed in
                 accordance
                 with an
                 approved
                 design.
                 (iii) wood, the frame
                 shall be
                 constructed of
                 sound sawn wood
                 in accordance
                 with an
                 approved design
                 or, in approved
                 cases, of round
                 wood.
                 (iv) precast
                 reinforced
                 concrete, the
                 frame shall be
                 constructed in
                 accordance with
                 an approved
                 design.
                 (b) The frame may be
                 constructed partly
                 of one and partly
                 of another of the
                 aforementioned
                 materials in
                 accordance with an
                 approved design.
                 (c) Roof principals and
                 purlins shall be
                 included in the
                 design and shall
                 be of steel,
                 concrete, wood or
                 aluminium alloy
                 spaced at
                 distances
                 appropriate to the
                 roof covering
                 material used.
                 (d) The gable ends shall
                 be sheeted down to
                 eaves level with
                 galvanised steel,
                 asbestos cement or
                 other approved
                 material.
                 5. Dairy. (a) The building shall Per square foot of floor area 1 5 3
                 be of traditional
                 or framed construc-
                 tion and shall have
                 a minimum height of
                 8′ 0″ to the eaves.
                 (b) Adequate doors,
                 windows and roof
                 lights shall be
                 provided in
                 accordance
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