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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-development-grants-agriculture-wales-regulations-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/529",
  "legislation_title": "The Rural Development Grants (Agriculture) (Wales) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-development-grants-agriculture-wales-regulations-1996",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations supplement the Community legislation listed in the Schedule to the Regulations (“the Community legislation”).\nThe Community legislation provides, inter alia, for assistance to be granted from the Guidance Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (“Community assistance”) towards operations which promote rural development by facilitating the development and structural adjustment of certain rural areas, if such operations fall within a sub-programme set out in a Single Programming Document which has been approved by the Commission of the European Communities. Sub-programme relating to Rural Wales were set out in a Single Programming Document approved by the Commission Decision No. C(95)4 of 6th January 1995 (“the Commission Decision”).\nThese Regulations provide the Secretary of State with the power to approve operations for the receipt of financial assistance, to attach conditions to any such approval (regulation 5) and pay financial assistance (regulation 3). The Regulations also set out the circumstances in which approval of an operation may be revoked and financial assistance paid to a beneficiary, in respect of that operation, may be recovered (regulation 11).\nThe Regulations provide powers of entry and inspection to authorised persons in relation to land on which an approved operation is situated or documents relating to an approved operation are held (regulation 9) (“authorised person” is defined in regulation 2(1)). The Regulations also oblige beneficiaries of financial assistance to keep records relating to the approved operation for a certain period (regulation 10), to supply such information relating to the approved operations as the Secretary of State requires (regulation 8), and to assist an authorised person in the exercise of his powers under regulation 9.\nThe Regulations make it an offence to supply false or misleading information for the purposes of obtaining financial assistance (regulation 12). They also make it an offence intentionally to obstruct an authorised person in the exercise of his powers under regulation 9, and to fail (without reasonable excuse) to keep relevant records for the required period or to provide an authorised person with assistance.\nCopies of the Commission Decision and the Single Programming Document which has been approved by that Decision may be inspected at the offices of the Welsh Office Agriculture Department at Cathays Park, Cardiff CF1 3NQ (Tel: 01222 823623).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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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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