{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-farm-sustainability-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-farm-sustainability-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-3.json",
  "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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Farm Sustainability Payment; Eligibility Requirements",
  "text": "(1) From 1 January 2026, an applicant must meet the criteria in paragraph (2) or (3) and paragraph (4).\n(2) An applicant for the scheme shall for the year 2020 or 2021—\n(a) have kept cattle or sheep or reared goats registered on APHIS;\n(b) reared deer for meat and sold that meat commercially;\n(c) have kept poultry registered with the Department as a commercial flock or pigs registered on APHIS, combined with selling grass (not including the sale of agistment grazing rights);\n(d) have farmed at least three hectares of a determined area with an arable or horticultural crop specified in Schedule 1 and declared in an application to the Department for either of those years; or\n(e) have been a contract rearer with a contract in place which demonstrated that they managed the livestock and associated grassland, bore the risks in relation to the agricultural activity being carried out and obtained benefits from it.\n(3) Paragraph (2) shall not apply to an applicant who in the year 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 or 2026 has set up a new eligible farm business.\n(4) An eligible farm business shall have activated at least three payment entitlements in 2026.",
  "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/3",
    "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."
}