{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highlands-and-islands-rural-enterprise-programme-regulations-1991/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highlands-and-islands-rural-enterprise-programme-regulations-1991/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Financial assistance",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations the Secretary of State may give to an eligible person financial assistance towards—\n(a) eligible expenditure on—\n(i) approved diversification measures mentioned in column 1 for the provision of any work or facility of the kind set out in column 2 of Schedule 1 except where the work or facility described in paragraph 3(6)(b) and (c) and paragraph 4(6)(a)-(d) of the said Schedule is to be carried out on set-aside land;\n(ii) approved ancillary agricultural measures of the kind set out in Part I of Schedule 2:\n(iii) approved environmental measures of the kind set out in column 1 of Part I of Schedule 3;\n(b) the environmental management of—\n(i) the categories of land referred to in column 1 of Part II of Schedule 3;\n(ii) land of high environmental value of a size mentioned in column 1 of Part III of Schedule 3;\n(2) Subject to regulation 8(2), the Secretary of State may determine the manner and timing of payment of financial assistance.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/780/regulation/7",
    "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."
}