{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farming-for-sustainability-innovation-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farming-for-sustainability-innovation-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2025/162",
  "legislation_title": "The Farming for Sustainability Innovation Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farming-for-sustainability-innovation-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThe Regulations establish the requirements for hosting payments for innovation farm visits and eligibility criteria of innovation visits outside Northern Ireland provided by the Department.\nThe Scheme–\nspecifies the amount for payments which may be made and the eligibility criteria to receive payments to farm businesses hosting innovation farm visits (regulations 3 to 5);\nspecifies the eligibility requirements for applicants applying to the Department to participate an innovation visit outside Northern Ireland (regulation 6);\nprovides for the Department to withhold or recover payment in specified circumstances (regulation 7); and\nprovides for the review of a decision to reject an application (regulation 8).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/162/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:25:07.967990+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."
}