{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-basic-payment-and-support-schemes-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-basic-payment-and-support-schemes-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1252",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy Basic Payment and Support Schemes (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-basic-payment-and-support-schemes-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Minimum eligible area of holding",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), for the purposes of Article 10(1) ... of the Direct Payments Regulation, no direct payments may be granted to a farmer where the eligible area of the holding for which the payments are claimed or due to be granted in accordance with Article 10(1) is less than 5 hectares.\n(2) Direct payments may be granted to a farmer where the eligible area of the holding referred to in paragraph (1) is less than 5 hectares if in 2020 direct payments were claimed by or due to be granted to that farmer—\n(a) before the application of Article 63 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013; and\n(b) in respect of such a holding (as defined for the 2020 claim year)—\n(i) situated in Wales and at least one other territory;\n(ii) where the eligible area situated in Wales of that holding was less than 5 hectares; and\n(iii) for which a payment was claimed or due to be granted in respect of the eligible area situated in Wales.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 renumbered as reg. 3(1) for specified purposes (31.12.2020) by The Direct Payments to Farmers and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1556), regs. 1(2)(a), 12(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) inserted for specified purposes (31.12.2020) by The Direct Payments to Farmers and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1556), regs. 1(2)(a), 12(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 omitted (31.1.2020) by virtue of The Common Agricultural Policy (Direct Payments to Farmers) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/104), regs. 1(2), 3(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 substituted (31.1.2020) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Direct Payments to Farmers) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/104), regs. 1(2), 3(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2) inserted for specified purposes (31.12.2020) by The Direct Payments to Farmers and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1556), regs. 1(2)(a), 12(2)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1252/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:34:50.653104+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."
}