Countryside Access Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Amounts of aid and claims

7.—(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations the Department shall make payments of aid in respect of each year of the duration of the undertakings referred to in regulation 3.

(2) The Department shall make payments of aid at the following rates—

(a) where a public access route is a route only through farmland—

(i) £129 per annum for the first 0.5 hectare or part thereof; and

(ii) subject to paragraph (3), £50 per annum for each additional 0.5 hectare or part thereof;

(b) subject to sub-paragraph (c), where a public access route is a route through a farm lane, £65 per annum for each 0.25 hectare or part thereof;

(c) where a public access route is a route through both farmland and a farm lane, £65 per annum for each 0.25 hectare or part thereof.

(3) Payments made under paragraph (2)(a)(ii) and Regulation 8(2)(a) shall not exceed—

(a) £250 per annum where the length of the route is 0.5 kilometres or less;

(b) £350 per annum where the length of the route exceeds 0.5 kilometres but does not exceed 1 kilometre;

(c) £450 per annum where the length of the route exceeds 1 kilometre.

(4) A claim of each payment under this regulation or regulation 8 shall be made at such time and in such form and shall contain such information as the Department may reasonably require.