Marketing of Quality Agricultural Products Grant Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Breaches of obligations

11.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) where—

(a) any information furnished to the Department by the beneficiary is false or misleading;

(b) the beneficiary is in breach of any of the conditions of an approval;

(c) the beneficiary is in breach of any requirement to which he is subject under these Regulations or under the Community legislation; or

(d) the whole or part of the financial support payable in respect of approved expenditure duplicates other grant paid or to be paid out of public funds,

the Department may exercise the powers contained in regulation 13.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(d), other grant duplicates any financial support if it is, or would be, for any of the same purposes as the financial support.

(3) Where—

(a) a beneficiary has transferred all or part of the land to which an approval relates to another person (“the transferee”);

(b) the transferee has given an undertaking to the Department to assume the conditions of the approval in place of the beneficiary; and

(c) the Department has accepted that undertaking,

the beneficiary shall be released from the conditions of the approval, other than in respect of any breach or other matter occurring before the acceptance by the Department of the transferee’s undertaking.