{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fur-farming-compensation-scheme-england-order-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/221",
  "legislation_title": "Fur Farming (Compensation Scheme) (England) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fur-farming-compensation-scheme-england-order-2002",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Requirements for a first-stage application",
  "text": "(1) A first-stage application shall be made in writing and shall contain the following information—\n(a) in the case of a sole trader, that person’s name and home address;\n(b) in the case of a partnership, the names and home addresses of the partners;\n(c) in the case of a body corporate—\n(i) the body corporate’s registered name, place of registration, registered address and any registration number;\n(ii) the names and addresses of the directors and any controllers of the body corporate;\n(d) the address of the applicant’s principal place of business and, if different, any address at which he kept mink for one or more of the relevant purposes within the last five years;\n(e) the address to which any correspondence relating to the first-stage application should be sent;\n(f) any trading name used by the applicant within the last five years;\n(g) the date on which the applicant ceased to carry on his qualifying business;\n(h) the reason for the applicant ceasing to carry on his qualifying business;\n(i) the number of breeding females kept by the applicant on 28th February 2001 or, if the entitled person’s premises were visited on behalf of the Minister by the Brown Rural Partnership on any other date in February 2001, on the date of that visit; and\n(j) any other information that the applicant considers to be relevant and material to his first-stage application.\n(2) A first-stage application shall be accompanied by a signed statement that—\n(a) the applicant fulfils the requirements set out in article 3;\n(b) the information contained in the first-stage application is true to the best of the applicant’s knowledge and belief;\n(c) the applicant consents to the Minister making such inquiries as she thinks fit in connection with the applicant’s first-stage application, including (without limitation)—\n(i) inspection of the applicant’s business premises and records; and\n(ii) obtaining information from the Inland Revenue, Customs and Excise and any local authority; and\n(d) the applicant undertakes to inform the Minister within one month of any new information (including any change of circumstances) coming to his knowledge, if—\n(i) it is relevant and material to his first-stage application; and\n(ii) it comes to his knowledge within six years of the date on which the first-stage application is made.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/221/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:15:57.835823+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."
}