{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bus-operator-coronavirus-financial-assistance-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/schedule/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bus-operator-coronavirus-financial-assistance-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/schedule/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2020/282",
  "legislation_title": "The Bus Operator (Coronavirus, Financial Assistance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bus-operator-coronavirus-financial-assistance-regulations-northern-ireland-2020",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Provision of financial assistance",
  "text": "(1) The Department may, in accordance with the following provisions, make a financial assistance payment to any eligible person.\n(2) That financial assistance payment shall constitute a single payment, by way of a grant, to each eligible person in accordance with sub-paragraphs (3) to (7).\n(3) For each eligible person, the amount payable shall be the lower of—\n(a) an amount equivalent to the financial standing requirements for that person, calculated in accordance with the number of their eligible vehicles; or\n(b) the amount by which that person’s eligible expenditure exceeds their eligible income for the eligible period.\n(4) The maximum amount payable to any eligible person shall be £100,000.\n(5) Financial assistance payments shall be made in compliance with Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to de minimis aid.\n(6) Financial assistance payments to eligible persons shall be on such other terms and conditions as the Department may specify.\n(7) In this paragraph—\n(a) “the 2009 Regulation” means Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 establishing common rules concerning the conditions to be complied with to pursue the occupation of road transport operator and repealing Council Directive 96/26/EC;\n(b) “eligible expenditure” means the total expenditure for the eligible period declared in the application;\n(c) “eligible vehicles” means vehicles registered on an eligible person’s bus operator’s licence at 23rd March 2020 adjusted to reflect vehicle sales and vehicle purchases relevant to the eligible period that the Department is satisfied are supported by the application; and\n(d) the “financial standing requirements” are, in accordance with Article 7 of the 2009 Regulation, £8,000 for the first eligible vehicle and £4,450 for each additional eligible vehicle.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L352, 24.12.2013, p. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L300, 14.11.2009, p. 51"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2020/282/schedule/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:41:38.114914+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."
}