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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-farm-sustainability-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "nidsr/2025/9780338024190",
  "legislation_title": "The Farm Sustainability (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-farm-sustainability-transitional-provisions-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 transition payments and 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 transition payments and farm sustainability payments.\nThe Scheme—\nspecifies the eligibility criteria to receive payments (regulation 3);\nspecifies the requirements to transition Basic Payment Scheme entitlements to Farm Sustainability Transition Payment scheme entitlements (regulations 4, 5, 6 and 7);\nspecifies amendments to the Common Agricultural Policy Basic Payment and Support Schemes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (regulation 8);\nspecifies amendments to the Beef Carbon Reduction Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (regulation 9);\nspecifies hemp production requirements for the scheme (regulations 10 and 11) ;\namends existing legislation (regulation 12);\namends the Direct Payment Regulation for this scheme (regulation 13);\namends the Direct Payments Delegated Regulation for this scheme (regulation 14);\namends the Commission Implementing Regulation for this scheme (EU) No. 641/2014 (regulation 15);\nlists crops eligible for the scheme (see Schedule 1); and\nlists the amendments to current legislation substituting the definition of the “basic payment scheme” to “farm sustainability transition scheme” in relation to the 2025 scheme year and “farm sustainability payment scheme” in relation to the 2026 scheme year and subsequent years (see Schedule 2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2025/9780338024190/note",
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  "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."
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