{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-basic-payment-and-support-schemes-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/191",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy Basic Payment and Support Schemes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-basic-payment-and-support-schemes-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Payment entitlements",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of Article 8(1) of the Direct Payments Implementing Regulation, the period within which the transferor of payment entitlements must notify the Department of the transfer is—\n(a) on or before 2nd May 2016, if 2016 is the first calendar year in which the transferee may include those entitlements in the transferee's application for direct payments; or\n(aa) on or before 15th May in relation to the 2025 scheme year and subsequent scheme years,\n(b) otherwise from 3rd May of the preceding calendar year to 2nd May (both those dates included) of the first calendar year where the first calendar year is 2017 or a subsequent year in which the transferee may include those entitlements in the transferee's application for direct payments , or\n(c) otherwise from 16th May of the preceding calendar year to 15th May (both those dates included) of the first calendar year where the first calendar year is 2026 or a subsequent year in which the transferee may include those entitlements in the transferee’s application for direct payments.\n(2) If, for the purposes of paragraph (1), 2nd May or 15th May is not a working day, the deadline for notification is the next working day.\n(3) For the purposes of Article 22(1) of the Horizontal Implementing Regulation, to the extent that Article relates to direct payments ..., applications for the allocation of payment entitlements must be submitted on or before 15th May of the relevant calendar year.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1)(aa) inserted (10.3.2025) by The Farm Sustainability Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/26), regs. 1(1), 4(3)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4(1)(b) substituted (10.3.2025) by The Farm Sustainability Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/26), regs. 1(1), 4(3)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1)(c) added (10.3.2025) by The Farm Sustainability Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/26), regs. 1(1), 4(3)(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(2) inserted (10.3.2025) by The Farm Sustainability Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/26), regs. 1(1), 4(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 4(3) substituted (24.2.2020) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Direct Payments to Farmers) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/22), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(3) omitted (23.2.2021) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/40), regs. 1(1), 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/191/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:02:05.054345+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."
}