Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024

16 Eligibility criteria for support

(1) Regulations under section 15(2)(a) may, in particular, make provision for or in connection with criteria for support by reference to—

(a) the activity which a person carries out,

(b) how a person carries out an activity, including whether the person carries out the activity personally or through other arrangements,

(c) a person’s characteristics or personal, financial or business circumstances (for example, a person commencing an agricultural activity for the first time or meeting a specific threshold for turnover from agricultural activity),

(d) the type or location of land on which a person carries out an activity,

(e) the amount of land on which a person carries out an activity, which may be set by reference to the type of activity (for example, horticulture), or the manner in which the land is occupied (for example, as a croft),

(f) the manner in which title to, or occupancy of, land on which an activity is carried out is registered or recorded (for example, if the land is registered in the Land Register of Scotland),

(g) the ability of grazing committees and co-operatives to claim support as a collective for joint projects separate to individual support.

(2) In this section “grazing committee” has the meaning given by section 47 of the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993.