{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farming-with-nature-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farming-with-nature-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Scheme actions; payments",
  "text": "(1) The Department shall not make a payment to an applicant until the applicant has returned to the Department a signed form of acknowledgement and understanding of scheme payment conditions declaration in such form as the Department may determine.\n(2) Subject to regulations 5 and 6 and to paragraph (1), the Department shall pay an applicant an amount not exceeding £20,000 for work completed in relation to eligible scheme actions and eligible supporting items each scheme year.\n(3) Schedule 3 lists the payments rates the Department will use to pay applicants for work completed for eligible scheme actions and eligible supporting items.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sum in reg. 8(2) substituted (25.6.2026) by The Farming with Nature Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 (S.R. 2026/105), regs. 1(1), 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 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/8",
    "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."
}