{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-support-schemes-modulation-scotland-regulations-2000/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-support-schemes-modulation-scotland-regulations-2000/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2000/429",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy Support Schemes (Modulation) (Scotland) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-support-schemes-modulation-scotland-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Modulation of support scheme payments",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of calculating the amount of any payment to which a farmer is entitled pursuant to a support scheme, the Scottish Ministers ... shall deduct the following specified proportion from the amount to which the farmer would be entitled under the support scheme if this regulation did not apply:–\n(a) in respect of the scheme year which begins in 2001, 2.5%;\n(b) in respect of the scheme year which begins in 2002, 3.0%;\n(c) in respect of the scheme year which begins in 2003 and that which begins in 2004, 3.5%; and\n(d) in respect of the scheme year which begins in 2005 and that which begins in 2006, 4.5%.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation, a payment to which a farmer would be entitled under the support scheme if this regulation did not apply, includes any payment which is made pursuant to Article 4 or 5 of the Agrimonetary Regulation (by way of supplement to the payment made pursuant to a support scheme) to the extent that such payment is funded by the European Community in accordance with Article 6 of the Agrimonetary Regulation.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), a payment made pursuant to Article 4 or 5 of the Agrimonetary Regulation shall be treated as made in respect of the scheme year in respect of which the payment pursuant to the support scheme was made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) omitted (15.11.2001) by virtue of The Abolition of the Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/390), regs. 1(1), 3(13)(c) (with reg. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2000/429/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:48:50.848626+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."
}