{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farming-with-nature-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farming-with-nature-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2025/101",
  "legislation_title": "The Farming with Nature Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farming-with-nature-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations establish the Farming with Nature Transition Scheme. The Scheme provides for payments to be made by the Department to eligible farm businesses which meet the eligible scheme actions and eligible supporting item requirements.\nThe Scheme–\nspecifies the duration of the scheme (regulation 3);\nspecifies the eligibility criteria for eligible farm businesses (regulation 4);\nspecifies the eligibility criteria for eligible scheme actions and eligible supporting items (regulations 5, 6 and 7);\nspecifies payments available and criteria for receiving payments (regulation 8);\nspecifies Title VI of Regulation 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 will not apply to the scheme (regulation 9);\nspecifies Article 19 of the Commissioning Implementing Regulation (EU)640/2014 will not apply to the scheme (regulation 10);\nspecifies paragraph 1 of Article 32 of the Commissioning Implementing Regulation (EU)809/2014 will state on the spot checks will be 1% for the scheme (regulation 11);\nspecifies the use of LPIS information; (regulation 12);\nprovides the powers for withholding and recovery of overpayments (regulation 13);\nprovides the powers of authorised persons (regulation 14);\nspecifies the assistance to authorised persons (regulation 15);\nprovides for the offences and penalties (regulation 16);\nspecifies eligible scheme actions (Schedule 1);\nspecifies eligible supporting items (Schedule 2);\nspecifies payment rates for eligible scheme actions and eligible supporting items (Schedule 3);\nspecifies native hedge plant species (Schedule 4); and\nspecifies native tree species (Schedule 5).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "EUR 1306/2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "EUR 640/2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "EUR 809/2014"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/101/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:25:53.048342+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."
}