{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farming-for-the-generations-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2024/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farming-for-the-generations-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2024/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2024/16",
  "legislation_title": "The Farming for the Generations Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farming-for-the-generations-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2024",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThe Regulations establish the Farming for the Generations Scheme (‘the Scheme’). The Scheme provides for grant payments to be made by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for the purposes of generational succession planning for farm businesses.\nThe Scheme–\nspecifies the types of grants available (regulation 3);\nspecifies the eligibility criteria for each grant (regulation 4);\nspecifies the amounts of grant payments which may be made (regulations 5, 6 and 7);\nspecifies the scheme period (regulation 8);\nprovides for inspections (regulation 9);\nprovides for the review of a decision to reject an application (regulation 10); and\nprovides for the Department to withhold payment in any case where false or misleading information has been provided and to recover any undue payment (regulation 11).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2024/16/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:29:44.768017+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."
}