{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horticulture-pilot-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horticulture-pilot-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-2.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": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“applicant” means an eligible farm business which has applied to a scheme;\n“approved agent” means an agent appointed by the Department to act on behalf of the applicant;\n“authorised person” means any person authorised by the Department to act under section 40(1) of the Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland) 1949 in matters relating to these Regulations;\n“CAFRE” means the Department’s College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise;\n“commercial horticulture business” means an eligible farm business linked to a unique taxpayer reference (UTR) number issued by HMRC which produces and sells one or more commercial horticulture products listed in Schedule 1;\n“the Department” means the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs;\n“eligible farm business” means a farm business which has applied for the scheme and meets the eligibility criteria in either regulation 4, 5 or 6;\n“force majeure or exceptional circumstances” has the same meaning as in Article 2(2) of Regulation (EU) No.1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy;\n“growers training and support pilot scheme” means the scheme set up by the Department to provide to successful grower scheme applicants technical and non-technical training provided by CAFRE and support and funding to facilitate their 4-year grower Business Development Plans;\n“hosting event” means an event given prior approval of the Department hosted by an eligible farm business for the purposes of facilitating learning;\n“hosting payment” means a payment under regulation 4(3) to an eligible farm business for the provision of facilities and support to facilitate learning;\n“scheme” means the Horticulture Pilot Scheme which comprises grant support under—\n(a)the sustainable sector growth group pilot scheme;\n(b)the innovation driver and support pilot scheme; or\n(c)the growers training and support pilot scheme;\n“new group of businesses” means a group of up to twelve eligible farm businesses which has never worked together which have formed into a sustainable sector growth group;\n“protected crop” means a crop grown under protection in a structure within which the environment can be controlled;\n“scheme year” means a financial year; and\n“sustainable sector growth group” means a group of eligible farm businesses joining together under these Regulations to form a group to promote their sustainable farm business growth.\n(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an act of the Assembly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (23.10.2025) by The Agricultural Schemes (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/161), regs. 1, 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 26.6.2025, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "EUR 1306/2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1954 c.33(N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/103/regulation/2",
    "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."
}