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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-development-programme-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-development-programme-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Payment",
  "text": "(1) The Department may make a rural development payment in the form of a single lump sum or by instalments.\n(2) Rural development payments may be made—\n(a) at such time or times as the Department thinks fit; and\n(b) subject to such conditions as the Department reasonably may determine.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 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/4",
    "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."
}