
1 
These Regulations may be cited as The Common Agricultural Policy Support Schemes (Modulation) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 16th October 2004.
2 
The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
3 
The Common Agricultural Policy Support Schemes (Modulation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 shall be amended as follows –
(a) in regulation 2, by the deletion of the word “IACS”;
(b) in regulation 3(2) –
(i) by the deletion of the definitions of “IACS support scheme” and “LFA supplement”;
(ii) by the insertion at the end of the definition of “the Council Regulation” of the words “, as last amended by the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded”;
(iii) by the insertion at the end of the definition of “Council Regulation 3508/92” of the words “, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 495/2001”;
(iv) in the definitions of “farmer” and “holding”, by the substitution for the words “Article 1(4)” of the words “Article 1(3)”;
(v) in the definition of “relevant purposes”, by the substitution for the words “Articles 13 to 24 (inclusive)” of the words “Articles 13 to 20, Articles 22 to 24”; and
(vi) by the insertion at the end of the definition of “the Rural Development Regulation” of the words “, as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 583/2004”.
(vii) by the substitution for the definition of “support scheme” of the following definition –“
 “support scheme” means any support scheme falling within Annex I to the Council Regulation.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 23rd September 2004.
R. Jordan
Senior Officer of the
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
