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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1996-745/article-9",
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  "legislation": "eur/1996/745",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 745/96 of 24 April 1996 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1469/95 on measures to be taken with regard to certain beneficiaries of operations financed by the Guarantee Section of the EAGGF",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1996-745",
  "path": "article/9",
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  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Where the measure referred to in point (b) of Article 3 (1) of Regulation (EC) No 1469/95 is taken and none of the advance payment arrangements referred to in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 2220/85 is applied, Member States shall be authorized to pay out the suspended payment once a security of an equivalent amount plus 15 % has been lodged.\n2. The security shall be declared forfeit to the EAGGF Guarantee Section when, for the operation concerned, the irregularity has been established by means of a definitive administrative or judicial decision within the meaning of point (a) of Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EC) No 1469/95.\nIt shall, moreover, remain forfeit if the suspended payment is found not to be due for reasons other than the existence of an irregularity.\nWhere neither of these reasons for forfeiting the security are present, it shall be released immediately for the operation in question.\n3. The provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 2220/85 shall apply to the security referred to in paragraph 1, which shall be regarded as a security on an advance payment within the meaning of Title IV of that Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1996/745/article/9",
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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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