The Financing, Management and Monitoring of Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020

[F1 Amendment of Title 8 (Final Provisions) U.K.

10.— (1) Title 8 of the Horizontal Regulation is amended as follows.

(2) For Article 115 substitute—

“Article 115 U.K. Regulations: general

1.   Regulations made by the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers under this Regulation are to be made by statutory instrument.

2.   For regulations made under this Regulation by the Scottish Ministers, see section 27 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 M1 .

3.   Any power of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to make regulations under this Regulation is exercisable by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 M2 .

4.   Regulations under this Regulation may:

(a) contain consequential, incidental, supplementary, transitional or saving provision (including provision amending, repealing or revoking enactments);

(b) make different provision for different purposes.

Article 115A U.K. Regulations: the Secretary of State

1.   Except as specified in paragraphs 2 to 6, a statutory instrument containing regulations made by the Secretary of State under this Regulation is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

2.   A statutory instrument containing regulations made by the Secretary of State under Article 26(1) may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.

3.   A statutory instrument containing regulations made by the Secretary of State under Article 75(3) must be laid before Parliament after being made.

4.   Regulations made by the Secretary of State under Article 75(3) cease to have effect at the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the instrument is made unless, during that period, the instrument is approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

5.   In calculating the period of 28 days for the purposes of paragraph 4, no account is to be taken of any time during which:

(a) Parliament is dissolved or prorogued, or

(b) either House of Parliament is adjourned for more than 4 days.

6.   If regulations cease to have effect as a result of paragraph 4, that does not affect the validity of anything previously done under those regulations or prevent the making of new regulations.

Article 115B U.K. Regulations: the Welsh Ministers

1.   Except as specified in paragraphs 2 to 5, a statutory instrument containing regulations made by the Welsh Ministers under this Regulation is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the National Assembly for Wales.

2.   A statutory instrument containing regulations made by the Welsh Ministers under Article 75(3) must be laid before the National Assembly for Wales after being made.

3.   Regulations made by the Welsh Ministers under Article 75(3) cease to have effect at the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the instrument containing them is made unless, during that period, the instrument is approved by a resolution of the National Assembly for Wales.

4.   In calculating the period of 28 days for the purposes of paragraph 3, no account is to be taken of any time during which the National Assembly for Wales:

(a) is dissolved, or

(b) in recess for more than 4 days.

5.   If regulations cease to have effect as a result of paragraph 3, that does not affect the validity of anything previously done under those regulations or prevent the making of new regulations.

Article 115C U.K. Regulations: the Scottish Ministers

1.   Except as specified in paragraphs 2 to 5, regulations made by the Scottish Ministers under this Regulation are subject to the negative procedure (see section 28 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010).

2.   Regulations made by the Scottish Ministers under Article 75(3) must be laid before the Scottish Parliament after being made.

3.   Regulations made by the Scottish Ministers under Article 75(3) cease to have effect at the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which they are made unless, during that period, the regulations are approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

4.   In calculating the period of 28 days for the purposes of paragraph 3, no account is to be taken of any time during which the Scottish Parliament is:

(a) dissolved, or

(b) in recess for more than 4 days.

5.   If regulations cease to have effect as a result of paragraph 3, that does not affect the validity of anything previously done under those regulations or prevent the making of new regulations.

Article 115D U.K. Regulations: Northern Ireland

1.   Except as specified in paragraphs 2 to 5, regulations made by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (“the Department”) under this Regulation are subject to negative resolution within the meaning of section 41(6) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 M3 as if they were a statutory instrument within the meaning of that Act.

2.   Regulations made by the Department under Article 75(3) must be laid before the Northern Ireland Assembly after being made.

3.   Regulations made by the Department under Article 75(3) cease to have effect at the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which they are made unless, during that period, the instrument is approved by a resolution of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

4.   In calculating the period of 28 days for the purpose of paragraph 3, no account is to be taken of any time during which the Northern Ireland Assembly is:

(a) dissolved,

(b) in recess for more than 4 days, or

(c) adjourned for more than 6 days.

5.   If regulations cease to have effect as a result of paragraph 3, that does not affect the validity of anything previously done under those regulations or prevent the making of new regulations.”.

(3) Omit Article 116.

(4) In Article 117—

(a) in paragraph 1—

(i) for “Member States and the Commission” substitute “ The relevant authority ”;

(ii) omit “and Chapter III of Title VII”;

(b) in paragraph 2, omit the words from “for monitoring” to “as well as”;

(c) in paragraph 3—

(i) for “Directive 95/46/EC and Regulation (EC) No 45/2001” substitute “ Regulation (EU) No 2016/679 and the Data Protection Act 2018 ”;

(ii) omit “national and Union”;

(d) in paragraph 4—

(i) for “Member States” substitute “ The relevant authority ”;

(ii) omit “and Union”;

(iii) for “Directive 95/46/EC and Regulation (EC) No 45/2001” substitute “ Regulation (EU) No 2016/679 and the Data Protection Act 2018 ”.

(5) Omit Article 118.

(6) Omit Articles 120 and 121.

(7) After Article 121, omit the words from “This” to “States”.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Regulations revoked (E.) (1.1.2024) by The Agriculture (Delinked Payments and Consequential Provisions) (England) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1430), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 3 para. 1 Table 2 (with Sch. 3 Pt. 2)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 10 comes into force on "exit day", see reg. 1(2)

Marginal Citations

M1 2010 asp. 10.

M2 S.I. 1979/1573 (N.I. 12).

M3 1954 c. 33 (N.I.). Section 41(6) was amended by S.I. 1999/663.