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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Direct Payments to Farmers Single Application Amendment Date (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 and come into operation on the 31stMay 2020.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
(3) In these Regulations, “claim year 2020” is to be interpreted in accordance with section 1(7) of the Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Act 2020.
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For the purposes of claim year 2020, the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 809/2014 of 17 July 2014 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No. 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the integrated administration and control system, rural development measures and cross compliance applies as if in Article 15(2), for “31 May of the year concerned” there were substituted “9 June 2020”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs on the 15th May 2020.
Jason Foy
A senior officer of the
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
