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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-and-aquaculture-structures-grants-regulations-1995/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-and-aquaculture-structures-grants-regulations-1995/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1576",
  "legislation_title": "The Fisheries and Aquaculture Structures (Grants) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-and-aquaculture-structures-grants-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Reduction, withholding and recovery of financial assistance",
  "text": "If at any time after the appropriate Minister has approved an applicaion in respect of a relevant operation it appears to him that any of the relevant conditions have not been complied with and in particular (without prejudice to the generality of such conditions) that—\n(a) the application or any part of it was not an application which the applicant was eligible to make;\n(b) the applicant or an employee, servant or agent of an applicant—\n(i) has failed to comply with a requirement imposed by regulation 10 or under regulation 11 or 12(5);\n(ii) has intentionally obstructed any officer in the exercise of his powers under regulation 12; or\n(iii) has given information on any matter relevant to the giving of the approval or the making of a payment relevant to the approval which is false or misleading in a material respect;\n(c) the operation was commenced before the date on which the appropriate Minister gave written permission to do so;\n(d) the operation in respect of which the expenditure was incurred has not been carried out or has not been properly carried out;\n(e) the operation has been or is being unreasonably delayed beyond the time limits set out in the notification of approval or is unlikely to be completed;\n(f) any undertakings given by the applicant have not been complied with; or\n(g) the Commission has decided to reduce, suspend or discontinue Community aid,\nhe may revoke the approval of such application in whole or in part or may reduce or withhold any financial assistance in respect of the operation and, where payment by way of financial assistance has been made, may on demand recover, as a civil debt or, in Scotland, as a debt, an amount equal to the whole or any part of the payment which has been so made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See Article 15(3) of the Council Regulation and Article 24(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4253/88."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1576/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:07:20.123633+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."
}