{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hill-livestock-compensatory-allowances-regulations-1992/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hill-livestock-compensatory-allowances-regulations-1992/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/269",
  "legislation_title": "The Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hill-livestock-compensatory-allowances-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Provisions with respect to sheep",
  "text": "(1) A compensatory allowance for sheep shall not be paid in respect of any ewe the use of which for breeding would not, in the opinion of the appropriate Minister, be in accordance with sound husbandry practice.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (1) above, and notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of these Regulations, the number of ewes in respect of which compensatory allowance may be paid in relation to any qualifying day shall not exceed—\n(a) the number of ewes which the appropriate Minister may determine as the number of ewes which he is satisfied has been comprised in the flock throughout the greater part of the year preceding that day or, in thecase of a flock newly established or re-established in that year, throughout such shorter period thereof as the appropriate Minister may determine, disregarding—\n(i) any seasonal variation in number, and\n(ii) any losses which he is satisfied have been or will be made good, or cannot reasonably be made good, within a reasonable period;\n(b) the number of ewes which, in the opinion of the appropriate Minister, is reasonable, having regard to the number of lambs produced in the year preceding the qualifying day or, in the case of a flock newly established or re-established in that year, in such shorter period as the appropriate Minister may determine;\n(c) a number calculated at the rate of—\n(i) six ewes for each hectare of severely disadvantaged land, and\n(ii) nine ewes for each hectare of disadvantaged land, being land which the appropriate Minister is satisfied was available for the maintenance of the flock throughout the greater part of the year preceding that day, or throughout such shorter period of that year as is referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above or which is relevant afforested land;\n(d) the number of ewes which the appropriate Minister determines to be the number which the land on which the flock was grazed and maintained in the year preceding that day was, in his opinion, capable of carrying without overgrazing the whole or any part of it, taking into account the number of other animals grazed and maintained on that land in that year; or\n(e) the number of ewes which when added to the number of cattle comprised in a regular breeding herd grazed and maintained on that land is equivalent to the maximum number of livestock units per hectare of the forage area of the holding permitted in respect of the grant of a compensatory allowance by article 19(a) of the Council Regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/269/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:29:34.421250+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."
}