Under clauses 18.2 and 18.6 of the Special Needs Grants Programme (“the programme”), as established and approved on 18 December 1998*, under section 124(1)(d) of the Social Security Act 1964, I further extend the approval given on 10 July 2007† (and extended on 18 December 2007‡) for Part 6 of the programme to apply to specified farmers until the close of 30 December 2008.
Dated this 18th day of March 2008.
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 further extends, until 30 December 2008, the approval originally given on 10 July 2007†, 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, 28 January 1999, No. 8, page 202
†New Zealand Gazette, 19 July 2007, No. 82, page 2131
‡New Zealand Gazette, 21 February 2008, No. 31, page 719