{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-farming-aid-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-farming-aid-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 8 (Change of occupation) of the principal Regulations—\n(a) after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(3A) The Department shall not accept an undertaking referred to in paragraph (1)(b) unless it is satisfied that the new occupier is not prohibited from providing an undertaking pursuant to an agri-environment scheme by application of Article 10 of the Commission Regulation (which restricts duplication of aid payments), by application of a penalty consequent upon Article 20(2) of the Commission Regulation (which requires member states to determine a system of penalties which are effective, commensurate with their purpose and of adequate deterrent effect to be imposed for breaches of undertakings) or by application of Article 20(3) of the Commission Regulation (which requires a person who, intentionally or by reason of gross negligence, makes a false declaration, to be excluded from all aid under the Council Regulation).”; and\n(b) for paragraph (7) there shall be substituted—\n“(7) The foregoing provisions of this Regulation shall be subject to Article 11 of the Commission Regulation (which governs transfers of holdings) and Article 12 of the Commission Regulation (force majeure)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/610/regulation/6",
    "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."
}