{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-farm-sustainability-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-13",
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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": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Direct Payments Regulation",
  "text": "(1) The Direct Payments Regulation shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In Article 5A –\n(a) for paragraphs 1 and 2, substitute “The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs shall determine the total ceiling for Northern Ireland for each year prior to the commencement of payments”;\n(b) omit paragraph 3;\n(c) omit Annex II.\n(3) In Article 30, after paragraph 12, add –\n“13. A young farmer or a farmer commencing their agricultural activity is not eligible to apply for an allocation of payment entitlements in a year after 2025.”.\n(4) In Article 32, after paragraph 1, insert—\n“1A. The relevant authority may make additional payments based on the amount paid under –\n(i) the Basic Payment Scheme;\n(ii) the Farm Sustainability Transition Scheme; or\n(iii) the Farm Sustainability Scheme”.\n(5) In Article 50, after paragraph 11, add—\n“12. This Article shall not apply after 2025 except where a young farmer is eligible to receive the payment in 2025.\n13. A young farmer who received the payment in 2025 or earlier may continue to receive the payment until the end of the 5 year period specified in paragraph 5.”\n(6) In Article 53—\n(a) for paragraph 1 substitute “The relevant authority shall determine the amount that may be used to finance measures under Article 52.”;\n(b) omit paragraphs 3 and 5.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2025/9780338024190/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:40:02.798262+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."
}