{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-nutrient-management-scheme-northern-ireland-2006/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-nutrient-management-scheme-northern-ireland-2006/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/537",
  "legislation_title": "Farm Nutrient Management Scheme (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-nutrient-management-scheme-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Scheme)\nThis Scheme allows the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to pay grant for the provision, and replacement of facilities to collect and store farm animal waste and farm effluent and for the separation of rainwater from farm waste.\nThe grant is available at a rate of 60% on the first £85,000 of eligible expenditure incurred by an agricultural business for this purpose.\nThe aggregate expenditure limit of £85,000 for each applicant includes any expenditure already considered under the Farm Nutrient Management Scheme (Northern Ireland) 2005 (“the 2005 Scheme”).\nThe Scheme also allows for financial limits on the amount of grant payable and provides for the consideration of applications for grant during a given period to be suspended if those limits are breached. It also allows for applications for grant to be rejected once the financial resources available for the Scheme are exhausted.\nBefore grant is paid, the expenditure to which it relates must be approved by the Department and there are restrictions on the approval of certain types of expenditure and further restrictions on the making of grant (Article 3(4), 5 and the Schedule).\nThe procedure for claiming grant is determined by the Department and provision is made that applications under the 2005 Scheme may be treated as applications under this Scheme (Article 6).\nThe 2005 Scheme is amended to provide that the aggregate expenditure limit for each applicant under that Scheme includes expenditure made under this Scheme (Article 7).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/537/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:43:30.433783+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."
}