{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-development-programme-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-development-programme-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/326",
  "legislation_title": "The Rural Development Programme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-development-programme-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Determinations relating to operations",
  "text": "(1) The Department or its agent may determine that, in relation to any claim or application made to it, or an operation approved by it—\n(a) the beneficiary has furnished false or misleading information to that body;\n(b) the beneficiary is in breach of any of the conditions of a rural development payment;\n(c) the beneficiary is in breach of any of the conditions of an approval under regulation 6;\n(d) the beneficiary is in breach of an undertaking given under regulation 21;\n(e) the beneficiary is in breach of any requirement to which that beneficiary is subject under these Regulations or under the European regulations;\n(f) the whole or any part of the sum paid or payable in relation to an operation duplicates assistance provided or to be provided out of monies made available by—\n(i) any statutory provision;\n(ii) the European Union; or\n(iii) a body exercising public functions within the United Kingdom;\n(g) there has been a material change in the nature, scale, costs or timing of the approved operation; or\n(h) the approved operation has been or is being delayed, or is unlikely to be completed.\n(2) Before a body makes a determination under paragraph (1), it must—\n(a) give the beneficiary a written explanation of the reasons for proposing to make the determination;\n(b) afford that beneficiary the opportunity of making written representations within such period as the Department or its agent considers reasonable; and\n(c) consider any such representations in deciding whether to make any determination.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 14 in operation at 5.10.2015, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/326/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:00:21.878110+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."
}