{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-hardship-payment-scheme-northern-ireland-2013/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-hardship-payment-scheme-northern-ireland-2013/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2013/144",
  "legislation_title": "The Agriculture (Hardship Payment) Scheme (Northern Ireland) 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-hardship-payment-scheme-northern-ireland-2013",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Application for payment",
  "text": "(1) The Department shall publish, in such manner as it considers appropriate, a notice inviting applications for a hardship payment.\n(2) A notice under paragraph (1) shall specify the closing date for such applications.\n(3) A notice under paragraph (1) may be amended by further notice published by the Department in the same manner.\n(4) An application for a hardship payment shall be made in such form or manner and shall be delivered to such address as the Department may specify in the notice under paragraph (1) and shall be received by the Department before the closing date specified in that notice.\n(5) An applicant shall furnish all such information relating to the application as the Department may specify in the notice under paragraph (1) or from time to time require in writing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/144/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:10:42.132945+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."
}