{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-agriculture-lump-sum-payment-england-regulations-2022/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-agriculture-lump-sum-payment-england-regulations-2022/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2022/9780348232035",
  "legislation_title": "The Agriculture (Lump Sum Payment) (England) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-agriculture-lump-sum-payment-england-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Eligibility",
  "text": "The eligibility conditions are that—\n(a) the applicant—\n(i) was eligible for, and claimed, direct payments under the basic payment scheme in, or before, the claim year 2018;\n(ii) inherited agricultural land on, or after, 16th May 2018; or\n(iii) succeeded to an agricultural holdings tenancy on, or after, 16th May 2018;\n(b) the applicant has met the requirements set out in regulations 6 and 8(1) and, where relevant, (3);\n(c) where the applicant—\n(i) is a partnership and the lump sum is payable in respect of one or more partners in the partnership with an interest, or a combined interest, of 50% or more in the profits of the partnership, such partners cease to be a member of the partnership; or\n(ii) is a body corporate and the lump sum is payable in respect of one or more members of the body corporate who, solely or jointly, hold 50% or more of the equity share capital in that body corporate, such members cease to be a member of the body corporate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The “basic payment scheme” is defined in section 7(2) of the Act. A “direct payment under the basic payment scheme” has the meaning given in section 7(5) of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2022/9780348232035/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:45:50.653063+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."
}