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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/integrated-administration-and-control-system-amendment-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1148",
  "legislation_title": "The Integrated Administration and Control System (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/integrated-administration-and-control-system-amendment-regulations-1997",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which apply throughout the United Kingdom and come into force on 29th April 1997, amend for a second time the Integrated Administration and Control System Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/1317) (“the principal Regulations”) which provide for the implementation in part of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3508/92 (OJ No. L355, 5.12.92, p.1), as amended, and Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 3887/92 (OJ No. L391, 31.12.92, p.36), as amended.\nThese Regulations—\n(a) consolidate regulation 2 of the principal Regulations, while introducing the new definitions of “area aid application”, “field identification check” and “IACS year” (regulation 3);\n(b) introduce a new regulation 2A in the principal Regulations, requiring that area aid applications for any IACS year be submitted by the 15th May immediately preceding the IACS year in question; this fulfils the obligation upon Member States to set such a date, contained in Article 6(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3508/92, as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 2446/96 (OJ No. L335, 24.12.96, p.1) (regulation 4);\n(c) extend the powers of authorised persons contained in regulation 6 of the principal Regulations to include the carrying out of a field identification check (being the verification, etc. made further to application to a competent authority by a farmer for the allocation of new field identification numbers or, in Scotland, for the updating of any such number or of a field boundary) (regulation 5);\n(d) amend regulation 8(2) and (4) of the principal Regulations so as to take account of certain changes made by the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/2795) (regulation 6(a));\n(e) create offences of knowingly, or recklessly, furnishing false or misleading information for the purpose of having a new identification number allocated to one’s field or, in Scotland, of having such a number, or a field boundary, updated, and prescribe a penalty; and make a consequential amendment (regulation 6(b) and (c)).\nA compliance cost assessment has been prepared and has been deposited in the library of each House of Parliament.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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