Regulation 13 Amounts and payment of aid

(1)

Subject to the provisions of this regulation and to regulations 10 and 16, payment of aid shall be by way of five payments made annually in arrears in relation to the use of set-aside land specified in column 1 of the table in this regulation at the rate per hectare of such land specified in column 2.


Column 1
Use of set-aside land
Column 2
Amount of annual payment per hectare of set-aside land

Less-favoured area	Other
£	£
Permanent fallow	180	200
Rotational fallow	160	180
Non-agricultural purposes	130	150
Woodland (other than under the provisions of the Farm Woodland Scheme)	180	200

(2)

Where a beneficiary uses any set-aside land for woodland under the provisions of the Farm Woodland Scheme^f1, he shall receive in relation to that land—

(a)

in respect of the year in which planting commences and any subsequent year in the set-aside period, the same rate as under the provisions of that Scheme;

(b)

in respect of any year in the set-aside period prior to that in which planting commences, the rate for permanent fallow specified in the table in this regulation.

(3)

Where a beneficiary uses any set-aside land for woodland otherwise than under the provisions of the Farm Woodland Scheme, he shall receive in relation that land—

(a)

in respect of the year in which planting commences and any subsequent year in the set-aside period, the rate for woodland specified in the table in this regulation;

(b)

in respect of any year in the set-aside period prior to that in which planting commences, the rate for permanent fallow specified in the table in this regulation.

(4)

Where a beneficiary uses any set-aside land for non-agricultural purposes, he shall receive in relation to that land—

(a)

in respect of the year in which the conversion to use for non-agricultural purposes commences and any subsequent year in the set-aside period, the rate for non-agricultural purposes specified in the table in this regulation;

(b)

in respect of any year in the set-aside period prior to that in which conversion to use for non-agricultural purposes commences, the rate for permanent fallow specified in the table in this regulation.

(5)

The appropriate Minister may deduct from the annual payments payable to a beneficiary in respect of any set-aside land under these Regulations the whole or any part of any annual payments made to that beneficiary in respect of that land under an agreement made with the appropriate Minister under section 18(3) of the Agriculture Act 1986^f2.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1988/1291.
f2: 1986 c. 49; section 18(3) provides for management agreements in environmentally sensitive areas.