{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/england-rural-development-programme-enforcement-regulations-2000/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/england-rural-development-programme-enforcement-regulations-2000/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3044",
  "legislation_title": "The England Rural Development Programme (Enforcement) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/england-rural-development-programme-enforcement-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“applicant” means any person who makes an application;\n“application” means an application to the Minister to enter into a commitment, which was received by the Minister after 29th July 1999;\n“authorised person” means any person who is authorised by the Minister, either generally or specifically, to act in relation to matters arising under these Regulations;\n“beneficiary” means a person who has entered into a commitment;\n“the Commission” means the Commission of the European Communities;\n“the Commission Regulation” means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1750/1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of the Council Regulation, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2075/2000;\n“commitment” means an undertaking by an applicant to comply with any requirement which is a condition of payment by the Minister under a relevant enactment;\n“Community assistance” means assistance granted by the European Community in respect of a commitment and financed by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund pursuant to the Council Regulation and the Commission Regulation;\n“the Council Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No. 1257/1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF);\n“electronic communication” has the same meaning as in the Electronic Communications Act 2000;\n“Minister” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; and\n“relevant enactment” means an enactment specified in the Schedule.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or the Schedule is a reference to the regulation so numbered in, or the Schedule to, these Regulations.\n(3) A reference in these Regulations to anything done in writing or produced in written form includes a reference to an electronic communication which has been recorded and is consequently capable of being reproduced.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L214, 13.8.1999, p. 31."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "O.J. No. L246, 30.9.2000, p. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "O.J. No. L160, 26.6.1999, p. 80."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2000 c. 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/75",
      "affecting_title": "The Rural Development (Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3044/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:10:42.319832+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."
}