LegalizeThe Hill Farm Allowance Regulations 2004
Made: 26th January 2004
Laid before Parliament: 26th January 2004
Coming into force: 18th February 2004
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Title, commencement and extent
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Interpretation
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Payment of hill farm allowance
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Eligibility for hill farm allowance
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Condition as to continued use of eligible land or related less favoured area
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Release from undertaking
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Amount of payment
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Deductions from relevant forage area
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Holdings situated partly outside England
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Amendment of the England Rural Development Programme (Enforcement) Regulations 2000
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SCHEDULE 1 — Notional Livestock Density
Notional livestock density shall be calculated as follows—
$$NLD=(A-B)÷C$ where— “A” is the number, expressed in livestock units, of relevant animals on the claimant’s qualifying forage area; “B” is the number of livestock units grazed on so much of the claimant’s qualifying forage area as does not fall within a less favoured area (“non-LFA land”) and, for this purpose, any non-LFA land other than common land shall be treated as being grazed by 1.8 livestock units per hectare and any non-LFA land which is common land shall be treated as being grazed by 1.0 livestock units per hectare; “C” is the claimant’s eligible forage area expressed in hectares; “NLD” is the notional livestock density on the claimant’s eligible forage area.$
SCHEDULE 2 — Payment Rates Per Hectare
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Severely disadvantaged land (not being moorland or common land)
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Disadvantaged land (not being moorland or common land)
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Moorland or common land
SCHEDULE 3 — Deductions from Relevant Forage Area
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SCHEDULE 4 — Holdings situated partly outside England
Agency arrangements
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Set–off
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Apportionment of livestock units
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Apportionment of individual reference quality of milk
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Signed
Alun Michael — Minister of State, — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 26th January 2004
Explanatory note
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Footnotes
[^f00001]: S.I. 1972/1811 and S.I. 1995/751.
[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68.
[^f00003]: The power of the Secretary of State to make regulations in relation to matters in or as regards Scotland is preserved by section 57(1) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).
[^f00004]: O.J. No. L280, 30.10.1999, p.43, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1035/2003 (O.J. No. L150, 18.6.2003, p.24).
[^f00005]: O.J. No. L160, 26.6.1999, p.1, as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 1782/2003 (O.J. No. L270, 21.10.2003, p.1).
[^f00006]: O.J. No. L281, 04.11.1999, p.30, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1473/2003 (O.J. No. L211, 21.8.2003, p.12).
[^f00007]: 1965 c. 64.
[^f00008]: S.I. 2003/289.
[^f00009]: S.I. 2002/271.
[^f00010]: S.I. 2001/476.
[^f00011]: S.I. 1999/3316.
[^f00012]: S.I. 1996/1500, amended by S.I. 1997/33, 1998/206, 1999/375; S.I. 1996/1500 ceased to apply by virtue of S.I. 1999/3316.
[^f00013]: S.I. 1994/2740, amended by S.I. 1995/100, 1995/1481, 1995/2778 and 1996/27 and revoked by S.I. 1996/1500.
[^f00014]: O.J. No. L198, 22.7.1991, p.1, as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 2277/2003 (O.J. No. L336, 23.12.2003, p.68).
[^f00015]: O.J. No. L355, 5.12.1992, p.1, as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 495/2001 (O.J. No. L72, 14.3.2001, p.6). Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3508/92 was repealed by Article 153(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1782/2003 (O.J. No. L270, 21.10.2003, p.1), but continues to apply to applications for direct payments in respect of the calendar years preceding 2005.
[^f00016]: O.J. No. L160, 26.06.1999, p.21, as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 1782/2003 (O.J. No. L270, 21.10.2003, p.1).
[^f00017]: O.J. No. L160, 26.6.1999, p.80, as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 1783/2003 (O.J. No. L270, 21.10.2003, p.70).
[^f00018]: S.I. 1994/1712, amended by S.I. 1996/3109, 1998/1606 and 1999/590.
[^f00019]: S.I. 1999/590, amended by S.I. 1999/2735 and 1999/2933.
[^f00020]: S.I. 2001/432, amended by S.I. 2001/3139.
[^f00021]: S.I. 2003/1235.
[^f00022]: S.I. 1992/2677, amended by S.I. 1994/2741, 1995/2779, 1996/49, 1997/2500 and 2001/281.
[^f00023]: S.I. 2001/1370.
[^f00024]: S.I. 2000/3044, amended by S.I. 2001/431; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.
Notional livestock density shall be calculated as follows—
$$NLD=(A-B)÷C$where—“A” is the number, expressed in livestock units, of relevant animals on the claimant’s qualifying forage area;“B” is the number of livestock units grazed on so much of the claimant’s qualifying forage area as does not fall within a less favoured area (“non-LFA land”) and, for this purpose, any non-LFA land other than common land shall be treated as being grazed by 1.8 livestock units per hectare and any non-LFA land which is common land shall be treated as being grazed by 1.0 livestock units per hectare;“C” is the claimant’s eligible forage area expressed in hectares;“NLD” is the notional livestock density on the claimant’s eligible forage area.$
Editorial notes
[^key-4f019d1b2533a2aac2033c5c30b1337c]: Regulations revoked (13.2.2012) by The Uplands Transitional Payment Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/114), regs. 1(1), 9
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