Farm Improvements (Standard Costs) Regulations, 1960
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Citation | SI 1960/931 |
1960 No. 931
The Farm Improvements (Standard Costs) Regulations, 196025thMay 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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