Under clauses 18.2 and 18.6 of the Special Needs Grants Programme, as established and approved on 18 December 1998, under section 124(1)(d) of the Social Security Act 1964 (“the programme”), I extend the approval given on
10 July 2007* for Part 6 of the programme to apply to specified farmers until the close of 30 June 2008.
Dated this 18th day of December 2007.
RUTH DYSON, Minister for Social Development and Employment.
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Explanatory Note
This note is not part of the instrument but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This instrument extends, until 30 June 2008, the approval under Part 6 of the Special Needs Grant Programme for rural assistance payments to be made to eligible farmers whose land-based industries in parts of the East Coast, Hawke’s Bay and Wairarapa areas, are affected by drought.
*New Zealand Gazette, 19 July 2007, No. 82, page 2131
New Zealand Gazette, 28 January 1999, No. 8, page 202