The Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2019

Amendment of the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2010

5.  After regulation 8 insert—

“Adjustment of the area of eligible land for a Scheme Year commencing on or after 1st January 2019

8A.— (1) Paragraph (2) applies for the purpose of the calculation in regulation 8(1) of the area of eligible land (in respect of a Scheme Year commencing on or after 1st January 2019.

(2) Where the area of eligible land (subject to regulation 9(2) and (3)) exceeds—

(a) 4,000 hectares, a reduction of 10% is to be applied to the number of hectares exceeding that amount;

(b) 10,000 hectares, a reduction of 25% is to be applied to the number of hectares exceeding that amount (in addition to the application of the reduction in sub-paragraph (a)).

(3) Where—

(a) an applicant has land in more than one grazing category (as determined for the purposes of regulation 8); and

(b) eligible land, for the purpose of the calculation in regulation 8(1), for that applicant has been reduced under paragraph (2),

the Scottish Ministers must apply that reduction in eligible land proportionately to the total of the eligible land in each grazing category for the purpose of the calculation in regulation 8(1).”.