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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/less-favoured-area-compensatory-allowances-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/16",
  "legislation_title": "The Less Favoured Area Compensatory Allowances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/less-favoured-area-compensatory-allowances-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
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  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations provide for the implementation of Articles 13(a), 14(1), 14(2) first indent, and 15 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 (O.J. No. L160, 26.06.1999, p 80) together with Articles 36(a)(ii) and 51(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1698/2005 (O.J. No. L277, 21.10.2005, p1), in so far as those Council Regulations relate to less favoured areas.\nAlthough Council Regulation (EC) No. 1698/2005 was repealed on 1st January 2014 by Article 88 of Regulation (EU) No. 1305/2013 of the European Parliament of the Council on support for Rural Development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), that is subject to transitional arrangements as provided for in Articles 1 and 3 of Regulation (EU) No. 1310/2013 laying down certain transitional provisions on support for rural development by the EAFRD.\nThese Regulations also provide for the implementation of Measure 2.1 of the Northern Ireland Rural Development Programme 2007-2013.\nCommission Decisions C(2009) 9927, C(2011) 8725 and C(2014) 3565 approved revisions to the Northern Ireland Rural Development Programme and amended Commission Decision C(2007) 4411 originally approving it.\nThe Regulations define the conditions of eligibility for less favoured area compensatory allowances (regulations 3 to 5) and the rates at which it is to be paid (regulation 6 and Schedule 2).\nRegulation 7 provides for the exclusion of forage area in respect of claimants who held milk quota at 31 March 2014.\nRegulation 8 confers powers of entry and inspection on persons authorised by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (“the Department”).\nRegulations 9 and 10 grant the Department powers to withhold or recover payments and take certain other action in the event of a breach under these Regulations and in certain other circumstances.\nRegulation 11 provides for the recovery of interest on sums recovered.\nRegulation 13 creates offences of making false or misleading statements and of obstructing persons authorised by the Department.\nThe Northern Ireland Rural Development Programme, and the revisions thereto, together with a copy of Commission Decisions C(2007) 4411, C(2009) 9927, C(2011) 8725 and C(2014) 3565 are available for inspection at the offices of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dundonald House, Upper Newtownards Road, Ballymiscaw, Belfast BT4 3SB.",
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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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