Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Act 2020

4Power to modify financial provision in CAP legislationS

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(1)The Scottish Ministers may by regulations modify any provision of the main CAP legislation relating to—

(a)the setting or determining of ceilings on the amounts of any payments or expenditure for any purpose under the legislation,

(b)the reallocation or transfer of amounts or proportions of such ceilings between or among different purposes under the legislation.

(2)The provisions of the main CAP legislation that may be modified under subsection (1) include in particular—

(a)Articles 6, 7, 11 and 14 of the Direct Payments Regulation,

(b)Articles 58 and 59 of the Rural Development Regulation,

(c)Articles 30 and 32 of the Horizontal Regulation.

(3)Regulations under this section are subject to the affirmative procedure.

(4)In this section, “ceilings” includes limits and other restrictions.

Commencement Information

I1S. 4 in force at 5.11.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/315, reg. 2(d)