LegalizeThe Hill Farm Allowance Regulations 2010
Made: 29th January 2010
Laid before Parliament: 2nd February 2010
Coming into force: 24th February 2010
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Title, commencement and application
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Interpretation
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Meaning of the England LFA maps
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Meaning of moorland
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Payment of hill farm allowance
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Eligibility for hill farm allowance
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Amount of payment
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Deductions from claimed forage area
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Holdings situated partly outside England
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SCHEDULE 1 — Notional Livestock Density
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$NLD=( A−B )÷C$
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”). For this purpose, any non-LFA land other than common land is treated as being grazed by 1.8 livestock units per hectare and any non-LFA land which is common land is treated as being grazed by 1.0 livestock units per hectare;
- “C” is the area of the claimant’s disadvantaged land and severely disadvantaged land expressed in hectares;
- “NLD” is the notional livestock density.
SCHEDULE 2 — Relevant Animals
Breeding cows
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Ewes
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SCHEDULE 3 — Payment Rates per Hectare
| Column 1 | Column 2 (For the first 350 hectares) | Column 3 (For the next 350 hectares) |
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| Severely disadvantaged land (other than moorland or common land) | £37.34 | £18.67 |
| Severely disadvantaged land (moorland or common land) | £14.14 | £7.07 |
SCHEDULE 4 — Availability of Individual Quotas: Deductions from Claimed Forage Area
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SCHEDULE 5 — 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 quota
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Apportionment of area of land used for the purposes of agriculture
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Signed
Huw Irranca-Davies — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 29th January 2010
Explanatory note
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Footnotes
[^f00001]: S.I. 1972/1811 and 1995/751.
[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68.
[^f00003]: 1965 c. 64.
[^f00004]: 2006 c. 26.
[^f00005]: OJ No L 160, 26.6.1999, p80, last amended by Council Regulation 1698/2005.
[^f00006]: OJ No L 277, 21.10.2005, p1, last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 473/2009 (OJ No L 144, 9.6.2009, p3).
[^f00007]: OJ No L 30, 31.1.2009, p16.
[^f00008]: OJ No L 316, 2.12.2009, p1.
[^f00009]: OJ No L 299, 116.11.2007, p1, last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1140/2009 (OJ No L 312, 27.11.2009, p4).
[^f00010]: OJ No L 316, 2.12.2009, p65.
[^f00011]: S.I. 2005/154, 2006/225 (as amended by 2006/518), 2007/619, 2008/51 and 2009/138.
[^f00012]: S.I. 2007/529, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.
[^f00013]: OJ No L 316, 2.12.2009, p27.
[^f00014]: S.I. 2007/3493.
Editorial notes
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