{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/england-rural-development-programme-enforcement-regulations-2000/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/england-rural-development-programme-enforcement-regulations-2000/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Breaches of commitments",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where—\n(a) any information furnished to the Minister by the beneficiary is false or misleading,\n(b) the beneficiary is in breach of any of the terms of a commitment, or\n(c) the beneficiary is in breach of any requirement to which he is subject under any relevant enactment or under the Commission Regulation,\nthe Minister may exercise any of the powers specified in regulation 6.\n(2) Where—\n(a) a beneficiary has transferred all or part of the land to which a commitment relates to another person (“the transferee”),\n(b) the transferee has, within three months of the date of the transfer, given an undertaking to the Minister to assume the commitment in place of the beneficiary, and\n(c) the Minister has accepted that undertaking,\nthe beneficiary shall be released from his commitment, other than in respect of any breach or other matter occurring before the acceptance by the Minister of the transferee’s undertaking.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/431",
      "affecting_title": "The England Rural Development Programme (Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3044/regulation/4",
    "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."
}