Less Favoured Area Compensatory Allowances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Increments to payment

8.—(1) After calculating the basic amount, the Department may, if it thinks fit, increase that amount by a percentage not exceeding 20% of the basic amount, provided that the same percentage is applied in relation to each claimant.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), if the basic amount, as supplemented by any increment under paragraph (1), is less than 80% of the relevant amount, the Department may pay the claimant such additional sum as would increase the total less favoured area compensatory allowance payable to him to an amount equal to 80% of—

(a) where the relevant area in 2001 is less than the relevant area in the year 2000 such proportion of the relevant amount as related to the lesser of those relevant areas; and

(b) in any other case, the relevant amount.

(3) In relation to a claimant whose holding, in the year 2000, was located partly outside Northern Ireland, the Department shall make the payment referred to in paragraph (2) only in relation to that proportion of the holding located in Northern Ireland.

(4) In this regulation—

(a) “the basic amount” means the amount payable to a claimant in accordance with regulation 7;

(b) “the relevant amount” means the compensatory allowance paid to the claimant in the year 2000; and

(c) “the relevant area” means the total of the less favoured area, together with any related less favoured area, entered in the claimant’s application for the year in question.