{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highlands-and-islands-rural-enterprise-programme-regulations-1991/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highlands-and-islands-rural-enterprise-programme-regulations-1991/regulation-3.json",
  "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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Selection of areas",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State shall select areas from within the programme area when he considers it expedient that the Business Development Scheme should operate in that area.\n(2) The Secretary of State in selecting an area shall have regard to the following criteria:—\n(a) share of agricultural employment in total employment;\n(b) level of agricultural income (measure in terms of net value added per holding);\n(c) population density (measured in persons usually resident per square kilometre);\n(d) proportion of land classified by the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute as land suitable for rough grazing only or land of very limited agricultural use.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "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/3",
    "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."
}