{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-sustainability-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-sustainability-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2025/33",
  "legislation_title": "The Farm Sustainability (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-sustainability-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Farm Sustainability Payment; Payment Entitlement Transition Requirements",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4), a farm business not eligible for the Farm Sustainability Payment Scheme in 2026 may transfer entitlements to an eligible farm business by 15 May 2026.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a farm business not eligible for the Farm Sustainability Payment Scheme in 2026 may not transfer entitlements under paragraph (1) to a farm business created with a new farm business identification number issued on or after 18 November 2025.\n(3) The prohibition on transfer of entitlements in paragraph (2) shall not apply to a transfer of entitlements by way of actual inheritance.\n(4) For the purposes of this regulation, actual inheritance has the same meaning as in Article 34 of the Direct Payments Regulation.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 substituted (18.11.2025) by The Farm Sustainability Payment Scheme (Eligibility etc) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/179), regs. 1(2), 9(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/33/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:26:43.259061+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."
}