Rural Development (Financial Assistance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Other cases in which recovery etc. powers apply

12.  The Department may exercise the powers contained in paragraphs (1)(a) and (1)(b) and paragraph (2) of regulation 13 where—

(a)there has been a material change in the nature, scale, costs or timing of the approved operation;

(b)the approved operation has been or is being delayed, or is unlikely to be completed;

(c)the whole or part of the payment of financial assistance in connection with an approved operation would duplicate assistance provided or to be provided out of monies made available by or under any statutory provision or by a body exercising public functions within the United Kingdom,

and for the purposes of paragraph (c), a payment duplicates such assistance if it would be paid for the whole or part of an approved operation in respect of which that assistance had already been paid.