{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/477",
  "legislation_title": "Arable Area Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Minimum size of cultivated plot",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), for the purposes of Article 3(1)(d) of Commission Regulation 658/96, the minimum size of a cultivated plot for which an arable compensatory payment may be made shall be 0.10 hectare.\n(2) In the case of land used for seed production or for research, the minimum size of a cultivated plot for which an arable compensatory payment may be made shall be 0.01 hectare.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 12.12.1997, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/477",
      "affecting_title": "Arable Area Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/477/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:26:28.346784+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."
}