http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2021/187/section/6/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.
Income support payments
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1
The Department may make an income support payment calculated in accordance with paragraph (3) to a producer if the conditions set out in paragraph (2) are met.
2
The conditions are that the producer—
a
had income forgone due to flooding or landslides as a result of rainfall impact in the eligible area;
b
subject to paragraph (5), at the date of the rainfall impact had a farm business ID; and
c
has—
i
made a Force Majeure application in 2017 due to the flooding event as a result of 2017 rainfall; and
ii
made an area-based scheme application for 2017 for the eligible area.
3
The amount of income support payment is either—
a
£4,092 for severely disadvantaged / disadvantaged land , excluding common land, per hectare of eligible area; or
b
£729 for lowland land, per hectare of eligible area; or
c
£145 for common land per hectare of eligible area.
4
This article is subject to article 7.
5
A new farm business ID issued since the date of the rainfall impactshall be treated as an eligible farm business ID under paragraph 2(b) where—
a
the original eligible producer’s farm business has merged with another farm business and a new farm business ID has been issued for that merged farm business; or
b
the original eligible producer has died and their farm business has passed either by testate or intestate succession to a new producer who has been issued with a farm business ID.