{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-agriculture-financial-assistance-regulations-2021/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-agriculture-financial-assistance-regulations-2021/regulation-24.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2021/9780348220667",
  "legislation_title": "The Agriculture (Financial Assistance) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-agriculture-financial-assistance-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Action available to the Secretary of State following determination of a breach",
  "text": "(1) Further to the determination made under regulation 23(2), the Secretary of State may take such of the following steps as the Secretary of State considers appropriate—\n(a) issue a warning letter to the agreement holder;\n(b) amend, remove or replace a condition subject to which financial assistance is given either temporarily or permanently;\n(c) amend, remove or replace any agreed standards or timescales either temporarily or permanently;\n(d) permit the agreement holder to rectify the breach;\n(e) reduce the amount of financial assistance awarded in whole or in part;\n(f) withhold the whole or any part of financial assistance payable under the financial assistance scheme to which the breach relates;\n(g) withhold the whole or any part of financial assistance payable under any financial assistance scheme to which the agreement holder is entitled;\n(h) recover on demand all or any part of financial assistance which has already been paid to the agreement holder;\n(i) terminate the agreement for financial assistance; and\n(j) prohibit the agreement holder from receiving financial assistance under any financial assistance scheme under section 1 of the 2020 Act, subject to regulation 29.\n(2) The Secretary of State may take more than one step in any particular case.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2021/9780348220667/regulation/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:47:39.634542+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."
}