{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-support-improvement-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-no-2-regulations-2025/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-support-improvement-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-no-2-regulations-2025/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2025/397",
  "legislation_title": "The Rural Support (Improvement) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-support-improvement-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-no-2-regulations-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "AGRICULTURE\nMade 11th December 2025\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Act 2020 (the “2020 Act”), Article 46(9)(b) and (c) and Article 70(4) of Regulation (EU) No1307/2013, and all other powers enabling them to do so.\nIn accordance with section 2(3) of the 2020 Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2020 asp 17, as amended by the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 11)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "EUR 2013/1307, as relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2022/279, S.I. 2020/91 and EUR 2017/2393. EUR 2013/1307 was incorporated into domestic law on exit day by section 1 of the Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Act 2020 (c. 2). Article 46(9) confers a power on the “appropriate authority” which for Scotland, is the Scottish Ministers (through the operation of the definitions of “appropriate authority” and “relevant authority” in Article 4 of Regulation EUR 2013/1307)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/397/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:32:34.416958+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."
}