http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2020/9780348212747/regulation/18

The Agriculture (Payments) (Amendment, etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

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King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2020-10-01

EXITING THE EUROPEAN UNION

AGRICULTURE

2020-01-01

These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by section 6(1) of the Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Act 2020 (c. 2) and sections 8(1) and 8C(1) of, and paragraph 21 of Schedule 7 to, the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16) in order to address failures of retained EU law to operate effectively and other deficiencies (in particular under section 8(2)(a), (b), (c), (d) and (g) of the 2018 Act) arising from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union and to reflect the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in the withdrawal agreement.