{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-commodities-coronavirusincome-support-scheme-northern-ireland-2021/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-commodities-coronavirusincome-support-scheme-northern-ireland-2021/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2021/63",
  "legislation_title": "The Agricultural Commodities (Coronavirus)(Income Support) Scheme (Northern Ireland) 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-commodities-coronavirusincome-support-scheme-northern-ireland-2021",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Scheme–\n“APHIS” means the Animal and Public Health Information System operated by the Department;\n“applicant” except in relation to an application for review under article 10 means a pig producer, a broiler pullet producer, a broiler hatching egg producer or an organic milk producer who makes an application;\n“application” means an application for an income support payment made in accordance with article 3(4);\n“business ID” means a number issued by the Department to a pig producer, a broiler pullet producer, a broiler hatching egg producer or an organic milk producer and which identifies that producer on APHIS;\n“broiler hatching egg producer” means a person with a business ID who rears broiler breeder pullets from 18 weeks of age for the purpose of producing broiler hatching eggs;\n“broiler pullet producer” means a person with a business ID who rears broiler breeder chicks to 18 weeks of age for the purpose of transfer to a broiler hatching egg producer;\n“the Department” means the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs;\n“first purchaser” means a person who purchases for processing a pig from a pig producer or, as the case may be, organic milk from an organic milk producer;\n“income support payment” means a payment made under article 5(1), 6(1), 7(1) or 8(1);\n“intercrop period” means the period of time between one crop of birds leaving a broiler pullet rearing farm or a broiler hatching egg laying farm and the next crop of birds arriving at the farm;\n“organic milk” means organic milk from cows as produced in accordance with the rules set out in Council Regulation (EC) No. 834/2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products;\n“organic milk producer” means a person with a business ID who produces organic milk from for the purpose of sale to a first purchaser;\n“pig producer” means a person with a business ID who raises pigs for the purpose of sale as pig meat or pig meat products to a first purchaser;\n“reference period” means the period beginning on 23rd March 2020 and ending on 31st January 2021 (both dates inclusive);\n“slaughtered” means slaughtered at a slaughterhouse (within the meaning of point 1.16 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin and approved or conditionally approved under Article 4 of that Regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. L189, 20.07.2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "O.J. L139, 30.04.2004"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2021/63/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:39:54.442723+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}