{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suckler-cow-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suckler-cow-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2025/41",
  "legislation_title": "The Suckler Cow Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suckler-cow-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Agriculture\nMade 6th March 2025\nComing into operation 1st April 2025\nThe Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 9(1) of the Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland) 1949 and Articles 52(9) and 70(4) of Regulation (EU) No1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013.\nThese Regulations are made with the approval of the Department of Finance under section 9(1) of the Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland) 1949.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Ministry of Agriculture for Northern Ireland became the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland by the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 c.36 section 40 and Schedule 5 paragraph 8(1); Renamed as the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development by the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1) Article 3(4) and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs by the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 c.5 (N.I.) section 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1949 c.2 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "EUR 1307/2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "The “Ministry of Finance” is now the “Department of Finance”; see section 1(4) of the Departments Act (NI) 2016 c.5 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/41/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:26:37.258488+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."
}