Article 9 Recovery of Payments
Where during the period of an agreement there is a change of occupation of the whole or any part of the land which is the subject of such agreement the Minister may withhold the whole or any part of any payment due to the farmer who entered into that agreement and may recover from him or his personal representatives the whole or any part of any payments of aid already paid to him.
Paragraph (1) above shall not apply where:
the new occupier is a person deriving title from or under the farmer who entered into the agreement; or
the change of occupation is the result of:
compulsory purchase of the whole or part of the holding; or
the termination of a tenancy following the operation of a notice to quit to which the Agricultural Land Tribunal has consented under section 26(1) of the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986f1 having been satisfied as to any of the matters specified in section 27(3)(b) to (f) of that Act or the termination of a tenancy following the service of a notice to quit stating that the circumstances in Case A, B, D, G or H of Schedule 3 to that Act apply.
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