{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farming-with-nature-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farming-with-nature-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-4.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": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Eligibility requirements; general requirements",
  "text": "(1) An eligible farm business shall—\n(a) hold either a Category 1 or 2 DAERA Farm Business ID number; ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) An applicant must have management control of the fields in which eligible scheme actions and eligible supporting items are implemented.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1)(b) and word omitted (25.6.2026) by virtue of The Farming with Nature Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 (S.R. 2026/105), regs. 1(1), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 19.6.2025, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/101/regulation/4",
    "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."
}