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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-farm-sustainability-payment-scheme-eligibility-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "nidsr/2025/9780338025326",
  "legislation_title": "The Farm Sustainability Payment Scheme (Eligibility etc) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-farm-sustainability-payment-scheme-eligibility-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations establish the requirements for farm sustainability payments provided by the Department. The payments made by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs are to applicants who are eligible for farm sustainability payments.\nThe Scheme–\nspecifies the conditionality requirements for the scheme (regulation 3);\nspecifies the land eligibility requirements for the scheme (regulations 4, 5 and 6);\nspecifies the use of information on the LPIS for the scheme (regulation 7);\nspecifies amendments to the Common Agricultural Policy Basic Payment and Support Schemes Regulations 2015 (regulation 8);\nspecifies amendments to the Farm Sustainability (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (regulation 9);\nspecifies amendments to the Direct Payments Regulation (regulation 10);\nspecifies amendments to the Commission Delegated Regulation (regulation 11);\nspecifies amendments to the Commission Implementing Regulation (regulation 12);\nlists ineligible features and land uses for the scheme (see Schedule 1);\nlists payment reductions for the scheme (see Schedule 2); and\nlists penalties for the scheme (see Schedule 3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2025/9780338025326/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:39:57.300590+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."
}