{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-farming-aid-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-farming-aid-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/610",
  "legislation_title": "Organic Farming Aid (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-farming-aid-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 2(2) (Interpretation) of the principal Regulations—\n(a) in the definition of “beneficiary” for sub-paragraph (c) there shall be substituted—\n“(c) set aside and which has been land within the meaning of sub-paragraph (a) or (b) or improved grassland for a period of at least 3 years before the date of application.”;\n(b) after the definition of “beneficiary” there shall be inserted—\n“ “the Commission Regulation” means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 746/96 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation 2078/92;”;\n(c) for the definitions of “organic farming” and “organic standards” there shall be substituted—\n““organic farming” means farming in accordance with UKROFS standards;”; and\n(d) for the definition of “UKROFS” there shall be substituted—\n““UKROFS standards” means the United Kingdom Register of Organic Food Standards production standards (as amended from time to time) for organic farming published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and known as the UKROFS Standards for Organic Food Production.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L102, 25.4.96, p. 19"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/610/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:31:34.914530+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."
}