{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horticulture-pilot-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horticulture-pilot-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2025/103",
  "legislation_title": "The Horticulture Pilot Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horticulture-pilot-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations establish the Horticulture Pilot Scheme. The scheme provides for payments to be made by the Department to eligible farm businesses in relation the individual pilots which are part of the scheme which meet the eligibility requirements.\nThe Scheme–\nspecifies scheme grant payments will be made the year after eligible action have occurred (regulation 3);\nspecifies the eligibility criteria for the Horticulture pilot schemes (regulations 4, 5 and 6);\nprovides the powers for withholding and recovery of overpayments (regulation 7);\nprovides for the powers of authorised persons (regulation 8);\nspecifies the assistance to authorised persons (regulation 9);\nprovides for the offences and penalties (regulation 10);\nspecifies commercial horticulture products (Schedule 1); and\nspecifies equivalent or higher educational qualifications (Schedule 2).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/103/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:25:51.491806+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."
}