{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sfgs-farmland-premium-scheme-2003/schedule-3/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sfgs-farmland-premium-scheme-2003/schedule-3/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2003/209",
  "legislation_title": "The SFGS Farmland Premium Scheme 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sfgs-farmland-premium-scheme-2003",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Farm Woodland Premium Scheme 1997 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) After paragraph 7 there shall be inserted the following paragraphs:–\n“Final date for receipt of applications\n7A. The Scottish Ministers shall not approve an application to enter this Scheme under paragraph 3(1) where the application is received by them or, as the case may be, on their behalf after the coming into force of the SFGS Farmland Premium Scheme 2003.”.\n(3) For schedule 1 (rates of grant), there shall be substituted the following schedule:–\n“SCHEDULE 1\nRATES OF GRANT\nColumn 1\nColumn 2\n£\nConverted land formerly arable land or improved land if neither disadvantaged or severely disadvantaged before conversion\n300\nConverted land formerly arable land or improved land\n(a) if disadvantaged before conversion\n230\n(b) if severely disadvantaged before conversion\n160\nConverted land formerly unimproved land whether or not disadvantaged or severely disadvantaged before conversion\n60\n”\n(4) For sub-paragraph 9(4)(b) to (d) there shall be substituted the following sub paragraphs:–\n“(b) “Council Regulation 1251/99” means Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1251/99 establishing a support system for producers of certain arable crops;\n(c) “set aside payment” means, in relation to an area of land which is converted land, the compensatory payment provided for in Article 4(3) of Council Regulation 1251/99, as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 1672/00, which would be made in relation to that area were it not converted land; and\n(d) “set-aside requirement” means the requirement to set land aside in accordance with Article 1 of Council Regulation 1251/99;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 160, 26.6.99, p.1. Council Regulation 1251/99 was amended by Council Regulations 2704/99 (O.J. No. L 327, 21.12.99, p.12), 1672/00 (O.J. No. L 193, 29.7.00, p.13) and 1038/01 (O.J. No. L 145, 31.5.01, p.16)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/209/schedule/3/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:36:51.417969+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."
}