http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2021/187/section/4/madeThe Agricultural (2017 North West Area Flooding) (Income Support) Scheme (Northern Ireland) 2021enGovernment Printer for Northern Ireland2021-06-29AGRICULTURE This Scheme provides for income support payments to be made by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to producers who in 2017 made Force Majeure and area-based scheme applications for land from which they have suffered a financial loss as a consequence of income forgone and land restoration costs as a consequence of flooding and resulting landslides due to rainfall caused by Storm Lorenzo from 22 August 2017 – 23 August 2017. 4 1 The Department must publish, in such manner as it considers appropriate, a notice inviting applications for an income support payment. 2 A notice under paragraph (1) must specify— a the conditions for an award of income support payment set out in article 7; b the closing date for receipt of applications; and c any information which the applicant is required to provide in support of the application. 3 A notice under paragraph (1) may be amended by further notice published by the Department in the same manner. 4 An application must be made in such form or manner and be sent to such address as the Department specifies in the notice under paragraph (1) and must be received by the Department on or before the closing date specified in that notice. 5 But the Department may accept an application received after the closing date if it is satisfied that— a the particular circumstances of the applicant render it unreasonable to expect the application to have been received by the closing date; and b the date on which the application was received is as early as can reasonably be expected in those circumstances.