# The Basic Payment Scheme (Tapering, Payment Entitlements and Closure) (Wales) Regulations 2025, Regulation 5: Transfer and use of entitlements


(1) The Direct Payments Regulation is amended as follows.
(2) In Article 34 (transfer of payment entitlements), after paragraph (1) insert—
“(1A) Transfer of payment entitlements, by any method, can only take place if it includes the transfer of an eligible hectare in the same transaction from the same transferor.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/1282/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/basic-payment-scheme-tapering-payment-entitlements-and-closure-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-5
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