{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highlands-and-islands-rural-enterprise-programme-regulations-1991/regulation-11",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/780",
  "legislation_title": "The Highlands and Islands Rural Enterprise Programme Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highlands-and-islands-rural-enterprise-programme-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Reduction or withholding of financial assistance",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may reduce or withhold any financial assistance under these Regulations in any case where—\n(a) the carrying out or provision of the work or facility towards the expenditure on which such financial assistance is claimed appears to the Secretary of State to frustrate the purposes served by assistance previously given out of money provided by Parliament or the European Economic Community; or\n(b) the carrying out of the work or facility towards the expenditure on which such financial assistance is claimed has been effected in a way which appears to the Secretary of State to have destroyed or damaged the natural beauty and amenity of the countryside to an extent which cannot be justified by the purpose for which financial assistance is claimed; or\n(c) funding in respect of expenditure towards which such financial assistance is claimed has been or may be given otherwise than under these Regulations; or\n(d) he considers that the expenditure towards which such financial assistance is claimed is excessive, having regard to the work or facility carried out or provided and to which the claim relates; or\n(e) he considers that in the circumstances current at the time of the application other applications are to be preferred.\n(2) Before reducing or withholding any financial assistance under the provisions of this regulation, the Secretary of State shall give to any person whose financial assistance it is proposed to reduce or withhold a written notification of the reasons for the action proposed to be taken by him.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/772",
      "affecting_title": "The Highlands and Islands Rural Enterprise Programme (Amendment) Regulations 1992"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/780/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:47:11.097357+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."
}