{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/less-favoured-area-support-scheme-scotland-regulations-2010/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/less-favoured-area-support-scheme-scotland-regulations-2010/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2010/273",
  "legislation_title": "The Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/less-favoured-area-support-scheme-scotland-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Withholding or recovery of less favoured area support",
  "text": "The Scottish Ministers may withhold or recover the whole or any part of any payment of less favoured area support payable or paid to an applicant in any of the following circumstances—\n(a) where the applicant fails to comply with the terms of an undertaking given by that applicant pursuant to regulation 3(1)(a) from which the applicant has not been released under regulation 3(2) or (3);\n(b) where the applicant, or an employee or agent of the applicant intentionally obstructs an authorised person in exercise of the powers under regulation 13, or fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement or request made by an authorised person under regulation 13 or 14;\n(c) where, in the opinion of the Scottish Ministers, the applicant has failed to act in accordance with cross compliance on or in relation to the holding; or\n(d) where, in the opinion of the Scottish Ministers, the applicant has not actively farmed eligible land in accordance with regulation 4 or, in relation to a Scheme Year commencing on or after 1st January 2015, the applicant is not an active farmer within the meaning of Article 9 of the Direct Payments Regulation.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 15(d) substituted (1.3.2013) by The Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/9), regs. 1, 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 15(d) inserted (9.6.2015) by The Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/185), regs. 1, 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 15 in force at 2.7.2010, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/273/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:54:42.207557+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."
}