Title, commencement and application
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Wales) Regulations 2005. They come into force on 1 March 2005 and subject to paragraph (2), apply to Wales.
(2) Regulations 14(1), (2), (6) and in so far as it relates to paragraph (6) of regulation 14, regulation 14(8), shall apply to the extent to which the National Assembly is the relevant competent authority in relation to holdings for the purposes of the IACS regulations(1).
The power of the National Assembly for Wales to make, as a body designated in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, regulations which extend to holdings which include land situated within the United Kingdom but outside Wales is confirmed by paragraph 2(b) of Schedule 2 to S.I. 1999/2788.