{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-farm-sustainability-payment-scheme-eligibility-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-9",
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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": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Farm Sustainability (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "text": "(1) The Farm Sustainability (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 3(1) for “From 1 January 2026” substitute “In the scheme year 2026”.\n(3) In regulation 3(2) after “An applicant for the scheme” insert “in the scheme year 2026”.\n(4) For regulation 6 substitute–\n“6. (1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4), a farm business not eligible for the Farm Sustainability Payment Scheme in 2026 may transfer entitlements to an eligible farm business by 15 May 2026.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a farm business not eligible for the Farm Sustainability Payment Scheme in 2026 may not transfer entitlements under paragraph (1) to a farm business created with a new farm business identification number issued on or after XXXX 2025.\n(3) The prohibition on transfer of entitlements in paragraph (2) shall not apply to a transfer of entitlements by way of actual inheritance.\n(4) For the purposes of this regulation, actual inheritance has the same meaning as in Article 34 of the Direct Payments Regulation.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2025 No. 33"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2025/9780338025326/regulation/9",
    "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."
}