Farm Improvements (Standard Costs) Regulations, 1958
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1958/627 |
| Year | 1958 |
1958 No. 627
The Farm Improvements (Standard Costs) Regulations, 195811thApril 1958
17thApril 1958
21stApril 1958
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 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, 1958; and shall come into operation on the 21st day of April, 1958.
2.—(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—
"approved" means approved by the Minister;
"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.
(2) The Interpretation Act, 1889(b), shall apply to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
3. The cost of any improvement, or of any part thereof, of a description specified in column 1 of Part I or Part II of the First Schedule to these regulations shall, at the option of the applicant for a grant under section twelve of the Agriculture Act, 1957, be taken to be the cost calculated by reference to the amount shown in relation thereto in column 2 of that Schedule except that in any case where fees for professional advice and assistance have been incurred in making any improvement, or any part thereof, of a description specified in column 1 of Part II of that Schedule, and the amount of such fees is equal to or greater than the difference in the cost of that improvement or part thereof when calculated by reference to the amounts shown in relation thereto in columns 2 and 3 respectively of Part II of that Schedule, the cost of such improvement or part thereof shall at the option of the applicant as aforesaid be taken to be the cost calculated by reference to the amount shown in relation thereto in column 3 of that Part II of that Schedule:
Provided that—
(a) where in relation to any general purpose building or cowhouse of a particular size or capacity the cost calculated as aforesaid is less than
(a) 5 & 6 Eliz. 2. c. 57.
(b) 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.
the cost, so calculated, of a building (of the same type and design) of a smaller size or capacity, the cost shall be taken to be that which is the greater;
(b) the requirements, if any, set out in the Second Schedule to these regulations in relation to any improvement or part thereof specified in column 1 of the First Schedule hereto shall be complied with.
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed this tenth day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight.
John Hare, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
(L.S.)
Given under the Seal of the Secretary of State for Scotland this tenth day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight.
John S. Maclay, Secretary of State for Scotland.
(L.S.)
Given under the hand of the Secretary of State for the Home Department this eleventh day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight.
R. A. Butler, Secretary of State for the Home Department.
We consent this eleventh day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight.
Martin Redmayne, Harwood Harrison, Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
STANDARD COSTS
PART I
Description of Improvement Cost
Column 1 Column 2
£ s. d
1. Excavation per cubic yard 7 0
2. Hardcore filling per cubic yard 15 0
3. Concreting (including making of concrete road)
(a) Concrete 4′ per square yard 9 0
(b) Concrete 6′ per square yard 13 6
4. Cattle grid installed, complete per grid 33 0 0
5. Field gate
(a) Field gate minimum width 10′ erected per gate 10 16 0
including gate posts and irons
(b) Field gate minimum width 10′ erected per gate 5 5 0
excluding gate posts but including irons
6. Soil cement road per square yard 5 0
7. Farm road made with broken stone or ungraded
materials
(a) without surface dressing per square yard 5 0
(b) with single cold bituminous dressing per square yard 6 3
(c) with double cold bituminous dressing per square yard 7 3
8. Strained wire fence on wooden posts
(a) 3 line wires per yard 2 6
(b) 3 line wires with rabbit netting per yard 4 9
(c) 4 line wires per yard 2 9
(d) 5 line wires per yard 3 0
(e) 6 line wires per yard 3 33
(f) 7 line wires per yard 3 6
9. Woven wire fence on wooden posts against
(a) cattle per yard 3 9
(b) sheep per yard 3 3
(c) pigs per yard 4 6
10. Wooden post and 3 rail (nailed) fence per yard 13 0
11. Quickthorn hedge planted on the flat
(excluding fences)
(a) double row of plants per yard 3 6
(b) single row of plants per yard 2 6
12. Dry stone wall (with stone on site) per yard 12 0
13. Sheep dipping bath per gallon capacity 2 6
14. Sheep pen fencing (including gates) per yard 13 6
15. Shelter belt (excluding fences) per acre 33 0 0
16. Claying and marling
(a) dressing of not less than 150 tons but per acre 30 0 0
less than 250 tons per acre
(b) dressing of not less than 250 tons per per acre 39 0 0
acre
17. Foundations for Dutch barn or covered part per upright 3 15 0
of cattle yard or implement shed of frame
construction
PART II—BUILDINGS
Description of Improvement Cost
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
£ s. d. £ s. d
1. General purpose building
(a) Totally enclosed per square foot floor area (if 13 3 14 3
not exceeding 1,000 square
feet)
Totally enclosed per square foot floor area (if 10 9 11 5
between 1,000 and 5,000
square feet)
(b) Lean-to construction per square foot floor area (if 12 0 13 0
not exceeding 750 square feet)
Lean-to construction per square foot floor area (if 10 0 10 10
between 750 and 1,500 square
feet)
2. Dutch barn or covered part of cattle yard or implement
shed of frame construction
(a) Steel or concrete frame (including roof but excluding
foundation)
for Dutch barn or per square foot floor area 6 0 6 2
implement shed
for covered part of per square foot floor area 6 0 6 4
cattle yard
(b) Timber frame (including roof but excluding
foundation)
for Dutch barn or per square foot floor area 5 6 5 8
implement shed
for covered part of per square foot floor area 5 6 5 10
cattle yard
(c) Cladding per square foot 1 9 1 10
(d) Mangers per foot run 2 0 0 2 2 0
(e) Walling per square yard 1 16 0 1 17 9
3. Cowhouse
(a) for not more than 12 cows (including per cow 57 0 0 61 0 0
feeding passage)
for not more than 12 cows (excluding per cow 51 0 0 55 0 0
feeding passage)
(b) for 13 to 20 cows (including feeding per cow 51 0 0 55 0 0
passages)
for 13 to 20 cows (excluding feeding per cow 45 0 0 49 0 0
passages)
(c) for 21 to 40 cows (including feeding per cow 48 0 0 51 0 0
passages)
for 21 to 40 cows (excluding feeding per cow 42 0 0 45 0 0
passages)
(d) for more than 40 cows (including per cow 45 0 0 48 0 0
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